Intel Core i5-8400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 25.31 slightly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

8673 points

131% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

12393 points

105% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

7498 points

147% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

7245 points

149% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3658 points

7587 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

233.29 points

202% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

14957 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

3338 points

141% significantly 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

3.9 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.4 GHz

35% 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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

32 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

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 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 9600X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.