Intel Core i5-9400F vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

3881 points
6371 points
64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6224 points
7734 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3150 points
5949 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3023 points
5841 points
93% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3757 points
6852 points
82% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.09 points
177.47 points
130% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4804 points
8534 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1342 points
1861 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4944 points
8733 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1407 points
1846 points
31% slightly 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
3.30 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.9 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% 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

444th of 1,089
229th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-9400F vs Ryzen 9 6900HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HS performs better than the Core i5-9400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i5-9400F 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 9 6900HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400F. The Ryzen 9 6900HS 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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