AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-9400T

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
44% significantly better overall score
2871 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
40% slightly better gaming score
4694 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
46% significantly better multitasking score
2315 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score
2214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
39% slightly higher Blender score
61.59 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3990 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1154 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
Identical
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

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
255% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
556th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-9400T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500X is faster than the Core i5-9400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500X 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 3500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9400T. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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