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

Compare Intel Core X-series 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 478.79
$ 165.69
$ 313.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points
7722 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points
10390 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
6857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
6632 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6145 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
179.45 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.7 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
65 W
153% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 1,089
156th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900X vs Ryzen 5 8400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8400F beats the Core i9-10900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900X 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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