Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-9400 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9400 beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Core i5-9400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads than the Core i5-9400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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 7520U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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.