Intel Core i5-9400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 119.99
$ 126.85 significantly less expensive
$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3881 points
10008 points
157% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6224 points
12170 points
95% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3150 points
9291 points
194% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3023 points
9088 points
200% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3757 points
9007 points
139% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.09 points
281.95 points
265% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4804 points
15168 points
215% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1342 points
2857 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4944 points
15466 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1407 points
2977 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
4.50 GHz
55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
32 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

444th of 1,089
89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-9400F vs Ryzen 7 7700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-9400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9400F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400F. The Ryzen 7 7700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. 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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