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AMD A4-3400 vs Intel Core i7-5960X

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 35 %

AMD A4-3400

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 8 %

AMD A4-3400

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

349

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

1,002

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

643

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,843

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

243

8C / 16T · 3.00 GHz

3,944

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

66 cb

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

177 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

125 cb

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

1,360 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
Family	AMD A (112)	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)
CPU group	AMD A4-3000 (3)	Intel Core i 5000X (3)
Architecture	Llano (K10)	Haswell E
Technology	32 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	FM1	LGA 2011-3
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-4960X
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	8x
Frequency:	2.70 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.50 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		3.20 GHz
L2-Cache	1.00 MB
L3-Cache		20.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 6410D	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.60 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 160	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	1 GB
Technology	32 nm
Release date	Q4/2010

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
TDP	65 W	140 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A4-3400	Intel Core i7-5960X
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE3, SSE4a	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2011	Q3/2014
Release price	28 $	829 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD A4-3400 is 4.0 stars (6 ratings), while Intel Core i7-5960X has received 4.6 stars (17 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A4-3400
2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★