Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i5-9400 vs Ryzen 3 5425U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9400 beats the Ryzen 3 5425U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Indeed, the Core i5-9400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has more threads than the Core i5-9400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 5425U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U.

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 i5-9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.