AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 212.99
$ 165.69
$ 47.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7399 points
7722 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8984 points
10390 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6877 points
0.29% slightly better multitasking score
6857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6735 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
6632 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6914 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6145 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
179.45 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
4.2 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700X vs Ryzen 5 8400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8400F is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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