AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i5-11400F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Core i5-11400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-11400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.