Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Core 5 120U

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3742 points
4396 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6026 points
7260 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3031 points
3586 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2907 points
3432 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points
85.75 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points
7114 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points
2111 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
6.5 MiB
333% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
12 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 1,111
413th of 1,111

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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