AMD Ryzen 5 8400F vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

Ryzen 5 8400F vs Core i9-9900KS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8400F is faster than the Core i9-9900KS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900KS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900KS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 8400F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KS CPU because of its 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 8400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KS. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.