AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 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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Intel Core i5-13400

Price

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$ 389.99

$ 323.74

$ 66.25 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points

8578 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points

11210 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

7751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

7556 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7345 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

196.62 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points

10023 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points

2279 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

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

141st of 1,118

131st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i5-13400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-13400 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13400.

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