Intel Core i5-13400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-13400 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13400 beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13400 that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i5-13400 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 i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.