Intel Core i5-8400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 74.99

$ 95.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

5931 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6026 points

7970 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3031 points

5267 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2907 points

5101 points

75% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3658 points

5451 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

141.88 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4729 points

7589 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1312 points

1833 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

7653 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

1872 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

459th of 1,092

258th of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8400 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.