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

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-9400T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Core i5-9400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9400T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Core i5-9400T 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 i5-9400T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400T. 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.