Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5-8400 comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i5-8400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400. The Core i5-8400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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