AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-8400

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-8400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400 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 i5-8400. The Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.