Intel Core i5-13400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Core i5-13400 vs Ryzen 9 8945H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945H beats the Core i5-13400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core i5-13400 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 i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.