Details of the upcoming Intel Core i5-10400 have been released in a leaked benchmark and it looks like it’s close to beating AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 in tests.
The Core i5-10400 is a mid-range processor in the newly announced Comet Lake CPU range. It’s expected to finally become available for purchase from the end of May and will be priced at $182.
The i5-10400 is based on Intel’s old 14nm architecture but it offers similar specifications to AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 5 3600. The CPU has 6 cores, 12 threads, a base clock of 2.9 GHz and a turbo boost of 4.3 GHz. This is on about the same level as the AMD CPU, so naturally, it’s interesting to compare them, even though the Ryzen 5 is already a year old.
How Was The Core i5-10400 Tested?
As the new Intel Core i5-10400 hasn’t yet been released, it’s hard to say what the performance will look like. However, leaked benchmarks from ChipHell have given us an insight into how it will perform.
The Core i5-10400 was tested on an MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk motherboard, with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card. The chip was put through a few different benchmarking tests, including Cinebench R15 and R20, SuperPi, and forms of CPU-Z bench.
How Does It Compare With The AMD Ryzen 5 3600?
While the Core i5-10400 is a newer chip, it still doesn’t quite match the year-old AMD chip. The AMD CPU had a 5-10% single-core gain over the newer Core i5-10400. In multi-core performance, it scored 3746 in Cinebench R20’s multi-core test whereas the i5-10400 scored just 3186.
However, the Core i5-10400 is still a good performer for mid-range chips and will suit plenty of people for gaming or other tasks. Another leak even suggested that it outperformed the Core i7-9700F in certain scenarios despite having fewer cores and a slower turbo clock.
What Chips Does The Core i5-10400 Beat?
When compared to last year’s Core i5-9400F, the i5-10400 experienced 2-5% gains in single-core tests. Improvements were more impressive in multi-core tests as the new chip has the addition of hyper threading.
This means that there was a huge 35-45% performance gain in the CPU-Z benchmark, a 45.5% gain with Cinebench R15, and a 41.8% gain in Cinebench R20.
While it may not have beat that specific AMD chip, it still looks like a great chip with impressive performance. We’d be interested to see how it performs when it’s finally released.