Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 240

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 200 Series 6 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

3756 points

3898 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6099 points

24% slightly better gaming score

4888 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3033 points

3569 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2911 points

3461 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.76 points

181.21 points

130% significantly higher Blender 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

2.9 GHz

4.30 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,121

463rd of 1,121

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9400 vs Ryzen 5 240 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 240 performs better than the Core i5-9400. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 240 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400. Also, the Ryzen 5 240 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 240 outputs less heat than Core i5-9400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 240 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400. The Ryzen 5 240 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 i5-9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.