Intel Core i9-10900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Price

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$ 406.54

$ 165.69

$ 240.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points

1% slightly better overall score

7722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points

10390 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

6857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

6632 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points

99% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6145 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

179.45 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

6 MiB

139% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089

157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900F vs Ryzen 5 8400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900F beats the Ryzen 5 8400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5 8400F has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.