Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-11400 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Core i5-11400 thanks to a slightly 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 9 8940HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX.

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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.