Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel N100

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

190% significantly better overall score

1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

127% significantly better gaming score

2647 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

226% significantly better multitasking score

928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

227% significantly better heavy workload score

886 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3658 points

191% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1255 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

129% significantly higher Blender score

33.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

250% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8400 vs N100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400 beats the N100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the N100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the N100. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N100. In terms of cache, the N100 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the N100.

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 i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.