Intel Core i5-9400F vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 119.99
$ 639.00 significantly less expensive
$ 758.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3881 points
17900 points
361% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6224 points
16115 points
158% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3150 points
18547 points
488% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3023 points
18824 points
522% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3757 points
18587 points
394% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.09 points
555.81 points
620% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4944 points
22613 points
357% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1407 points
3204 points
127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
24
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
24
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
5.7 GHz
39% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
24
49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
40 MiB
2566% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
36 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

444th of 1,089
4th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-9400F vs Core Ultra 9 285K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285K is faster than the Core i5-9400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores than the Core i5-9400F. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400F. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400F. The Core Ultra 9 285K 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 i5-9400F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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