Intel Core i5-4690 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Core i5-4690 vs Ryzen 5 8400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8400F beats the Core i5-4690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4690 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 8400F has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4690. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-4690. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4690. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4690. Also, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F outputs less heat than Core i5-4690 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-4690 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.