AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i5-10400

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i5-10400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3450U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 3450U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.