AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Core i5-10400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 7 3800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Ryzen 7 3800X 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 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.