AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-6402P

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-6402P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-6402P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6402P 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 i5-6402P has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6402P. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6402P. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6402P 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6402P. 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.