AMD Ryzen 9 3900 vs Intel Core i5-10400F. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000 Intel Core i 10000
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i5
• Generation
  3 10
• Predecessor
  - Intel Core i5-9400F
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  AMD Ryzen 9 5900 Intel Core i5-11400F

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.1 GHz 2.9 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 6
• CPU Threads
  24 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.3 GHz 4.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-10400F and AMD Ryzen 9 3900. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  20 16
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 3900 and Intel Core i5-10400F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 3900 and Intel Core i5-10400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Matisse (Zen 2) Comet Lake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 12 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q2/2020
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1200
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d