Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 169.95

$ 216.19 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4847 points

10011 points

106% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6648 points

11884 points

78% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4269 points

9348 points

118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4133 points

9142 points

121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4768 points

8010 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.48 points

263.24 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5782 points

15051 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1454 points

2723 points

87% 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

4.20 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

96 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

359th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10400F vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.