Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i5-10400F vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i5-10400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. A Core i5-10400F CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 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 EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The EPYC 74F3 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.