AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-13400

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-13400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13400. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.