AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-10400

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-10400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-10400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.