AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-7400

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-7400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i5-7400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7400 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 i5-7400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7400. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7400. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more 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 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.