Intel Core i5-9400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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Price

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$ 119.99
$ 181.57 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3880 points
11151 points
187% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6224 points
13797 points
121% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3150 points
10273 points
226% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3022 points
10028 points
231% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3757 points
9722 points
158% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.09 points
302.05 points
291% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4944 points
16965 points
243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1407 points
3349 points
138% 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
3.8 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
5.5 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly 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

448th of 1,092
68th of 1,092

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2024 August

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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