AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-13400F

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 142.82

$ 81.43 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

8423 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

10881 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

7653 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

7469 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

7348 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

197.47 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

15911 points

34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

10863 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2293 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

129th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.