Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i5-13400

Core i9-10900 vs Core i5-13400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13400 beats the Core i9-10900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-10900 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.