CPU Reviews

Lower middle class in showdown: Intel Core i5 10400F vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 together with the right motherboard in comparison – Same price and same speed?

Gaming benchmarks

I run all games in Full-HD with 1920 x 1080 pixels, which the target group of these CPUs should probably do. For this I rather attach importance to a balanced mix of performance and optics. But which graphics card is best to test such a system with? Do you use a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or do you prefer something more suitable for the price range and target group? After a first plausibility test with a MSI RX 5600XT Gaming MX I quickly rejected this idea because the graphics card was usually the limiting link in the graphics chain. In this case, the Ryzen 3 3300X is easily sufficient to achieve almost identical results with the other CPUs!

That’s how it turned out, I didn’t want to let myself get carried away, the MSI GeForce RTX Lightning Z, which was allowed to use it again to avoid rusting up the archive. At least this is probably the best way to find out the differences in daily use. I did without the 720p tests here and now for many reasons. The most important one was probably the lack of time, but we already had that.

Depending on the game and multi-core optimization, the i5-10400F is sometimes in front and sometimes, you’ll be amazed, the Ryzen 3 3300X. The distances between the Ryzen 3 3600 and Ryzen 3 3300X are really measurable and tangible when a game is trimmed to beat rather than parallelism over as many threads as possible. Although more and more games are focusing on better and wider use of as many threads as possible, more and more unfortunately does not mean the majority. And so the Ryzen 3 3300X is somehow the winner of the little man, but with no real future prospects for coming changes in the thread landscape.

Actually, the differences between the CPUs in gaming are relatively small and I wrote it in the beginning: on a rather standard Radeon RX 5600XT, the three CPUs are almost always equal except for one FPS difference, as long as the graphics card generates the limit. On the other hand, those who would like to work from time to time and are looking forward to a future with more threads will probably prefer the Core i5-10400F, or the Ryzen 5 3600. The B460 motherboard used leaves little room for the i5-10400F, but the CPU does exactly what you buy it for, if you do.

You can see the disadvantage of the small Ryzen 3 3300X very well, but you won’t buy it for rendering anyway. Otherwise, the single core performance of the Core i5-10400F is okay, even if the Ryzen 3 3300X pinches him quite a bit. The bottom line is that both hexagons are very similar and the small quadruped plays a little bit the jumping fox terrier, which turns its circles as if it were wound up and keeps snapping at the stick.

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