Intel Core i5-9400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Intel Core i5-9400F
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
2900 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jan 2019
Intel Core i5-9400F
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Core i5-9400F
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    140%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Core i5-9400F
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    118%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Core i5-9400F
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    162%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-9400F

None

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600

18% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 62% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 40% higher average synthetic performance.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
SSE4A
SSE4.1
AES
SHA
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2

Architecture

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
ArchitectureIntel_CoffelakevsAMD Zen 2
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameCoffee LakevsZen 2
Release DateJan 2019vsMar 2019

Cores

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
Cores6vs6
Threads6vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
L1 Cache64K (per core)vs96K (per core)
L2 Cache256K (per core)vs512K (per core)
L3 Cache9MB (shared)vs16MB (shared)

Physical

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
SocketIntel Socket 1151vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Temp72°Cvsunknown
PackageFC-LGA1151vs
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process14 nmvs7 nm

Performance

Intel Core i5-9400FAMD Ryzen 5 3600
Cpu Frequency2900 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock4100 MHzvs4400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsvariable
TDP65 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i5-9400F
    4920 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    4928 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i5-9400F
    20880 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    29514 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Core i5-9400F (simulated)
    174.25
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    206.31

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • Intel Core i5-9400F (simulated)
    972.54
  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    1575.75

points - higher is better