Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10400F

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 169.95

$ 10.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

4847 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

6648 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

4269 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

4133 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3756 points

4768 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

111.48 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

5783 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

1414 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

5782 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

1454 points

4% 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

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

Identical

1.5 MiB

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

460th of 1,089

359th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2020 May

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 i5-8500 vs Core i5-10400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400F is faster than the Core i5-8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-10400F has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-10400F also has slightly 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.