Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 9 5980HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX 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 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5980HX 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 9 5980HX also has slightly 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.