Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 171.08

$ 1411.92 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4799 points

6502 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6712 points

7833 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4192 points

6045 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4056 points

5906 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.95 points

184.03 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5556 points

7993 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1451 points

1652 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

4 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 performs better than the Core i5-10400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.