AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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$ 97.99

$ 44.83 significantly less expensive

$ 142.82

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

8423 points

95% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

10881 points

85% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

7653 points

100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

7469 points

102% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

7348 points

111% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

197.47 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

10863 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

2293 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

129th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400F. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X.

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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.