Intel Core i5-10400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Core i5-10400 vs Ryzen 9 7950X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X 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 9 7950X has significantly more cores with 16 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 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7950X CPU because of its 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 7950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 9 7950X also has significantly 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.