Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-10400F vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.