UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i5-10400F

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Best Bench: 124% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 95% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg)

Poor: 95% Great: 124%

SPEED RANK: 33^rd / 1442

Gaming 114%

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Desktop 115%

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Workstation 151%

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Best Bench: 92% Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 75% Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)

Poor: 75% Great: 92%

SPEED RANK: 177^th / 1442

Gaming 85%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 76%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		114 %	Much faster effective speed. +33%		85.2 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	79.3 Pts		89.6 Pts	Lower memory latency. +13%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	209 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +77%	118 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	408 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +77%	230 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	791 Pts	Hugely faster quad-core speed. +82%	435 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1527 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +114%	715 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	91.4 Pts		95.9 Pts	+5%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	221 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +78%	124 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	436 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +77%	246 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	857 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +77%	485 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1685 Pts	Hugely faster OC octa-core speed. +117%	778 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.11 %	1.49 %	Insanely higher market share. +1,255%
Value Value For Money	94.2 %	113 %	Better value. +20%
User Rating UBM User Rating	61 %	88 %	Much more popular. +44%
Price Price (score)	$549	$98	Hugely cheaper. +82%


Age Newest	19 Months	Much more recent. +60%	47 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	170 Watts		65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +62%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	16 cores	Hugely higher core count. +167%	6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	32 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +167%	12 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +64%	14 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	4.5 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +55%	2.9 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.7 GHz	Much faster turbo frequency. +33%	4.3 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	3877 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +296%	978 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	3670 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +306%	903 Pts


Series CPU Architecture	Zen4	Comet Lake
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM5	FCLGA1200
Graphics Integrated Graphics	RDNA2	None

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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The i5-10400F is a six-core hyperthreaded CPU from Intel’s latest Comet Lake series of desktop processors. This 65 W CPU has single core and all core boost frequencies of 4.3 GHz and 4.0 GHz, respectively. Whilst the 10400F will require a new LGA1200 motherboard, such as the Z490, Intel have guaranteed that the next generation of Rocket Lake CPUs will also be compatible with this chipset. The 10400F is aimed at mid-tier gaming PC builds, and as such, ships with a cooler but without integrated graphics. Despite being officially launched in Q2 of 2020, at the time of writing, the 10400F is still not widely available. Compared to the similarly priced Ryzen 5 3600, the 10400F’s lower memory latency gives it the lead in gaming and effective speed benchmarks. Since the Ryzen architecture creates a gaming bottleneck, it is necessary to upgrade to a higher tier, Intel CPU for better gaming performance. On the other hand comparing the i5-10400F and the i3-10100 shows that the 10100 offers comparable gaming performance for 22% less money whilst also including integrated graphics. ^{[Jun '20 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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