The first performance figures for Intel’s Core i5-10400 are shown by a leak, and it can’t be ruled out that this chip offers good performance in the medium speed range.
The family of 10th generation core processors known as Comet Lake-S will produce dozens of references. With the Core i5-10400, the offer in the medium price segment is tackled. Its price is $184 and $157 for an embedded graphics solution. In this case, it is the Core i5-10400F.
On its shell, we find a 6-core chip with hyper-threading technology, i.e. 12 logical cores. It embeds 12 Mb L3 cache and benefits from a base frequency of 2.9 GHz. The boost mode is calibrated to 4.3 GHz.
The Core i5-9400’s mechanics are quite similar to the current Core i5-9400, but the differences are in the activation of hyper-threading and the boost frequency, which has increased by 200 MHz.
A leak reveals some performance data of this Core i5-10400, which was tested on an MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk motherboard and especially put in competition with the Core i5-9400F.
- Core i5-10400 Vs Core i9-9400 on Cinebench R20
- Core i5-10400 Vs Core i9-9400 on Cinebench R15
Overall, single-core performance increased by 2 to 5% depending on the context. This fourchette is logical since the increase between the two references rises by 4.8%.
However, the difference in multi-core becomes clearer with the activation of Hyper-Threading for the Core i5-10400, with gains ranging between 35 and 45%. Under Cinebench, this core i5-10400 is up to 10-15% of Ryzen 5 3600X in multi-threaded Cinebench tests.