AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-13400F

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
$ 142.82
$ 87.17 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
8423 points
0.01% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
10881 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
7653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
7469 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7348 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

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

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
15911 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
10863 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2293 points
34% 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
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

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
129th 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 i5-13400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400F performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-13400F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. The Ryzen 9 3900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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