Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3754 points

4404 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6091 points

6525 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3034 points

3759 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2911 points

3630 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.76 points

86.99 points

10% slightly 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

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

455th of 1,089

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9400 vs Ryzen 5 7430U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Core i5-9400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 7430U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U 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 7430U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400. The Ryzen 5 7430U 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 i5-9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.