AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 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

$ 219.80
$ 38.03
$ 181.77 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
541% significantly better overall score
1227 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
315% significantly better gaming score
2282 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
685% significantly better multitasking score
933 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
701% significantly better heavy workload score
895 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
1336% significantly higher Blender score
14.84 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
939% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
970 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
515% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
344 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
992% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
935 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
550% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
337 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
42% much higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
95 W
10% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
894th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q9400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a much higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9400. The Core 2 Quad Q9400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly 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 Core 2 Quad Q9400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X

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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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