AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-9400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-9400F

Price

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$ 277.00

$ 163.46

$ 113.54 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

42 %

7% slightly better overall score

39 %

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

57 %

62 %

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

37 %

19% slightly better multitasking score

31 %

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

36 %

20% slightly better heavy workload score

30 %

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5283

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5077

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

107.01

25% slightly higher Blender score

85.40

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485

4804

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048

1342

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4455

4758

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1045

1339

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 627

208th of 627

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2017

February 2019

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-9400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600 performs better than the Core i5-9400F. Despite this, the Core i5-9400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400F. The Ryzen 5 1600 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.