Intel Core i5-7400 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i5-7400 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 7. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1151 socket and was released in Q1/2017. The Intel Core i5-7400 scores 884 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,803 points.
Intel Core i5-7400

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i5-7400. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i5-7400.

Name: Intel Core i5-7400
Family: Intel Core i5 (328)
CPU group: Intel Core i 7000 (17)
Architecture: Kaby Lake S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 7
Predecessor: Intel Core i5-6400
Successor: Intel Core i5-8400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-7400 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-7400 is 3.00 GHz (3.50 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: No
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 3.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 3.30 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-7400 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-7400 uses the Intel HD Graphics 630, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.00 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 64 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2400
38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 65 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-7400 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1151
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 6.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date: Q1/2017
Release price: 220 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-7400 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
942
Intel Core i5-8600T Intel Core i5-8600T
6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz
937
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
931
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
925
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
923
Intel Core i7-7700HQ Intel Core i7-7700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
921
Intel Core i3-N300 Intel Core i3-N300
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
920

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 5 3500U AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3544
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3544
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3389
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
3359
Intel Core i7-3635QM Intel Core i7-3635QM
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
3301
Intel Core i7-2600 Intel Core i7-2600
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
3289
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3286

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Athlon 220GE AMD Athlon 220GE
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
886
Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
886
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3
10C 20T @ 3.50 GHz
886
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
884
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X
8C 16T @ 3.70 GHz
884
AMD EPYC 7451 AMD EPYC 7451
24C 48T @ 3.20 GHz
884
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
10C 20T @ 3.30 GHz
884

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
2808
Intel Core i5-8265U Intel Core i5-8265U
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
2806
Intel Core i7-4770TE Intel Core i7-4770TE
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2804
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
2803
Intel Core i7-3615QM Intel Core i7-3615QM
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
2798
Intel Core i7-6822EQ Intel Core i7-6822EQ
4C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
2796
Intel Core i3-9100TE Intel Core i3-9100TE
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
2793

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1178
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1178
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
1176
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1175
Intel Core i5-5675C Intel Core i5-5675C
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1175
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
1174
Intel Core i5-9500TE Intel Core i5-9500TE
6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz
1174

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i7-1060G7 Intel Core i7-1060G7
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3360
Intel Core i7-1060NG7 Intel Core i7-1060NG7
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
3360
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3349
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
3346
Google Tensor G2 Google Tensor G2
8C 8T @ 2.85 GHz
3342
Intel Core i7-5700HQ Intel Core i7-5700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3342
Samsung Exynos 2100 Samsung Exynos 2100
8C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
3339

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD A8-5500 AMD A8-5500
AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz
389
AMD A8-5500B AMD A8-5500B
AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz
389
AMD A8-5600K AMD A8-5600K
AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz
389
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.00 GHz
384
Intel Core i5-14450HX Intel Core i5-14450HX
Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (16 EU) @ 1.50 GHz
384
Intel Atom x7425E Intel Atom x7425E
Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake) @ 1.00 GHz
384
Intel Processor N200 Intel Processor N200
Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Alder Lake) @ 0.75 GHz
384

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
5515
Intel Core i7-4710HQ Intel Core i7-4710HQ
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
5515
Samsung Exynos 990 Samsung Exynos 990
8C 8T @ 2.73 GHz
5511
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
5510
Intel Core i5-5675C Intel Core i5-5675C
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
5503
Intel Core i7-4860EQ Intel Core i7-4860EQ
4C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
5500
Intel Core i5-6685R Intel Core i5-6685R
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
5497

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i7-3770K Intel Core i7-3770K
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
597.4
Intel Core i7-3770 Intel Core i7-3770
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
597.8
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
616.6
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
623.6
Intel Core i5-4690 Intel Core i5-4690
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
625.6
AMD FX-9590 AMD FX-9590
8C 8T @ 5.00 GHz
625.9
Intel Core i3-9100 Intel Core i3-9100
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
634

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i3-1005G1 Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
388
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
386
Intel Core i5-4590 Intel Core i5-4590
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
386
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
384
Intel Core i5-3570K Intel Core i5-3570K
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
384
Intel Core i7-3770K Intel Core i7-3770K
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
384
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
383

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-4570 Intel Core i5-4570
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1453
Intel Core i5-3570K Intel Core i5-3570K
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1447
Intel Core i7-875K Intel Core i7-875K
4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz
1447
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1444
AMD Ryzen 5 3450U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz
1443
Intel Core i7-950 Intel Core i7-950
4C 8T @ 3.06 GHz
1442
Intel Core i5-3570 Intel Core i5-3570
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1436

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i7-5775C Intel Core i7-5775C
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
150
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4
18C 36T @ 3.60 GHz
150
Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4
22C 44T @ 3.60 GHz
150
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Celeron G5920 Intel Celeron G5920
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Core i5-7267U Intel Core i5-7267U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i7-4700HQ Intel Core i7-4700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
568
Intel Core i7-4700MQ Intel Core i7-4700MQ
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
568
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
565
Intel Core i5-7400 Intel Core i5-7400
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
564
Intel Core i7-8550U Intel Core i7-8550U
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
564
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
564
Intel Core i5-6585R Intel Core i5-6585R
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
560

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