AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-10400

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10400

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 41.08 significantly less expensive

$ 171.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4799 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

6712 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4192 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4056 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4753 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

113.95 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5557 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1391 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5556 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1451 points

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

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

367th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-10400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10400 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.