AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-13400

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 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

$ 229.99
$ 93.75 significantly less expensive
$ 323.74

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
8550 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
11151 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
7733 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
7540 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7345 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
196.62 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
15953 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
10023 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2279 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
9.5 MiB
58% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
123rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i5-13400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Core i5-13400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13400. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13400.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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