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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 171.08
$ 1411.92 significantly less expensive
$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4796 points
6502 points
35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6711 points
7833 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4188 points
6045 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4053 points
5906 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.95 points
184.03 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5556 points
7993 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
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

2
Identical
2

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

382nd of 1,118
231st of 1,118

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

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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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. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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.

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