Intel Core i5-13400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Core i5-13400F vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Core i5-13400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. 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 i5-13400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.