Intel Core i5-9400F vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 9000 AMD Ryzen 7040
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Ryzen
• Generation
  9 6
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-8400 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-10400F -
• Form Factor
  - Handheld
• Series
  - Ryzen Z1

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

• Base Frequency
  2.9 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• CPU Threads
  6 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.1 GHz 5.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  3.9 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 8x Zen 4
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 5.1 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
  None AMD Radeon Graphics
• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 12
• Generation
  - 10
• GPU Frequency
  - 1200 MHz
• GPU Turbo
  - 2900 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  - 12
• Max. displays
  - 4
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2023
• Shader
  - 768
• Technology
  - 4 nm

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

• AV1
  No Decode / Encode
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Intel Core i5-9400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 256 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2 (Dual Channel)
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR5-5600LPDDR5X-7500
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 89.6 GB/s
• PCIe
  - 4.0 x 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-9400F and AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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
  100 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W -
• TDP down
  - 15 W
• TDP up
  - 30 W
• Configurable TDP
  - 9-30 W
• Default TDP
  - 28 W
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  - 28 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-9400F and AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Coffee Lake S Refresh Phoenix (Zen 4)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• L2-Cache
  - 8 MB
• L3-Cache
  9 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q2/2023
• Socket
  LGA 1151-2 FP8
• Technology
  14 nm 4 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Chip design
  - Monolithic
• Documents
  - Technical data sheet
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux