Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i5-10400F vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400F is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F

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 i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.