AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-9400F

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-9400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9400F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Core i5-9400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9400F. Despite this, the Core i5-9400F 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 1500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400F. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.