Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4799 points

3% slightly better overall score

4640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6712 points

10% slightly better gaming score

6078 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4192 points

4227 points

0.83% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4056 points

4149 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.95 points

119.67 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5557 points

6258 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points

1694 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5556 points

6151 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1451 points

1677 points

15% 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 March

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 5850U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10400 performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U outputs less heat than Core i5-10400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.