Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Core i9-10900F

Core i5-10400F vs Core i9-10900F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900F beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-10400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F 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 Core i9-10900F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F. The Core i9-10900F 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 i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.