AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-9400

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-9400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9400 beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than the Core i5-9400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-9400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9400 CPU because of its 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 3500U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.