Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS

Core i5-10400F vs Ryzen 7 6800HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800HS beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 6800HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 6800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 6800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800HS outputs less heat than Core i5-10400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 6800HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Ryzen 7 6800HS also has slightly 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.