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Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD A12-9800

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400

Rank 2 - 61 %

AMD A12-9800

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400

Rank 2 - 38 %

AMD A12-9800

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,005 pts

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

655 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,341 pts

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,979 pts

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

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,085

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

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

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

4,722

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,827

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

403

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

177 cb

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

100 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

987 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

326 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	AMD A12-9800 (1)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151-2	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor	Intel Core i5-8400
Successor	Intel Core i5-10400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	6x	4x Excavator
Frequency:	2.90 GHz	3.80 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.10 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.90 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	1.11 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400	AMD A12-9800
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q2/2019	Q3/2017
Release price	220 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-9400 is 3.9 stars (42 ratings), while AMD A12-9800 has received 4.2 stars (13 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-9400
6C / 6T · 2.90 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A12-9800
4C / 4T · 3.80 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★