AMD Ryzen 5 8400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7722 points
34% slightly better overall score
5757 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10390 points
32% slightly better gaming score
7870 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6857 points
35% slightly better multitasking score
5067 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6632 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score
4903 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

179.45 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
144.95 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

163rd of 1,102
281st of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 April
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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