Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-13400F

Price

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$ 484.10

$ 142.82

$ 341.28 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8226 points

8423 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8838 points

10881 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8007 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

7653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7938 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

7469 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8988 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7348 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.23 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

197.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15821 points

15911 points

0.57% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9141 points

10863 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1778 points

2293 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

25% slightly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

Identical

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 1,089

129th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900K vs Core i5-13400F comparison

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i9-10900K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400F. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-10900K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.