Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

3935 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6091 points

19% slightly better gaming score

5110 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3034 points

3597 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2911 points

3527 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.76 points

119.67 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4782 points

6258 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1342 points

1694 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4811 points

6151 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1393 points

1677 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.4 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

4 MiB

166% 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

472nd of 1,112

455th of 1,112

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2021 March

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 7 PRO 5850U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U beats the Core i5-9400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.