AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i5 9400F

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with 16 cores 4.5GHz and Intel Core i5 9400F with 6 cores 2.9GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Integrated graphics card

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2666)

Larger memory bandwidth (73.4GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.5GHz vs 2.9GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 9MB)

Intel Core i5 9400F 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +92%

2059

Intel Core i5 9400F

1069

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +546%

38165

Intel Core i5 9400F

5906

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +119%

3068

Intel Core i5 9400F

1396

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +316%

21409

Intel Core i5 9400F

5142

Geekbench 5 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +109%

2232

Intel Core i5 9400F

1067

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +404%

24244

Intel Core i5 9400F

4806

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +74%

4286

Intel Core i5 9400F

2453

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +562%

62987

Intel Core i5 9400F

9511

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

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Intel Core i5 9400F

General Parameters

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2019

Amd

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Zen 4 (Raphael)

Core Architecture

Coffee Lake

-

Processor Number

i5-9400F

AM5

Socket

LGA-1151

Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Package

13.1 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AM5

Socket

LGA-1151

170 W

Power Consumption

65 W

230 W

Max Turbo Power Consumption

-

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

6

32

Performance Core Threads

6

4.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.9 GHz

5.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.1 GHz

16

Total Core Count

6

32

Total Thread Count

6

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

45x

Multiplier

29x

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

9 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-2666

128 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

73.4 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

41.6 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

-

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

-

2200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

-

448

Shader Units

-

8

Texture Units

-

4

Raster Operation Units

-

2

Execution Units

-

15 W

Power Consumption

-

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Official Website

Intel Core i5 9400F

5.0

PCIe Version

3.0

28

PCIe Lanes

16

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

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