Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i5-8400 specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8400. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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