Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 325.06 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5682 points
10982 points
93% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points
13108 points
56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points
10252 points
111% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points
10031 points
114% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5721 points
10082 points
76% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points
325.43 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7262 points
18346 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1960 points
3336 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.2 GHz
18% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
640 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% 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

276th of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11400 vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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