Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 169.95

$ 43.04 slightly less expensive

$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4847 points

7399 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6648 points

8984 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4269 points

6877 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4133 points

6735 points

62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4768 points

6914 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.48 points

207.23 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5783 points

9632 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1414 points

2079 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5782 points

9706 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1454 points

2147 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.40 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.6 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

4 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

359th of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10400F vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Core i5-10400F. 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 Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.