- I woke up this morning
and I went down to my local retailer
for PC parts computer Alliance,
aka computer Alley-ance,
and they have the i5-10400.
And they had up to 330 aussie dollars,
which is pretty much coming right around the same price
as its contender to from AMD,
the Ryzen 5 3600.
Now, these CPUs will come around the same price
there also will be the i5 10400f,
which will be even better value than this right here.
But coming into this lineup,
I knew that the i5 10400 is gonna be pretty much
Intel's 10th Gen value champion, six cores, 12 threads,
it pretty much puts it in a similar ballpark
as an i7 9700f, for example,
or even an i7 8700k from the previous generation
in terms of its core and thread counts.
Now speaking of clock speeds,
it doesn't clock that high.
What I measured here was four gigahertz
all core clocks in both productivity benchmarks
and gaming benchmarks and then for the single core boost,
I was getting up to 4.1 gigahertz.
But let's pull up the first gaming benchmark here,
Call of Duty Warzone
where we saw pretty much similar results
between these two, six core 12 threaded CPUs.
And then of course, we got the 10900k in there,
just to show you what the maximum performance is
with an RTx2080 Ti,
which this is the GPU that we did all the tests on
in today's comparison.
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Now moving along with Grand Theft Auto V,
we could see that this CPU is coming again
neck and neck, with the Ryzen 5 3600
scoring pretty much similar average FPS 1%
and point 1% lows.
But another thing is two,
I couple this with 3200 megahertz cL 16 memory,
I feel like this memory is going to be pretty much
the value choice for DDR 4 RAM,
if you're going out and buying
one of these six core 12 thread and CPUs.
So the results here would be better of course
if we had 3600 megahertz RAM,
but we're just using the value choice in my opinion.
Though, moving on with Shadow of the Tomb Raider,
we saw the first victory here for the 10400
coming out by roughly 10% over that of the Ryzen 5 3600.
Though moving on now to Resident Evil 3,
this is a new game of throwing in the benchmarks here,
we saw pretty much the same FPS even across all three CPUs.
So of course, the better optimized the game,
the less of a difference that will be
even on a 2080 Ti.
The next game we're pulling up here
is Ghost Recon 10 ADP high settings on the Vulkan API.
And this one was a little bit surprising
because the 10400 came in with a sizable increase
over the Ryzen 5 3600 in the 10900k
came in yet again with higher FPS
than that of the two six cores.
So perhaps it's not really a well optimized game.
But then we did see the worst frame
coming in at exactly the same score,
which means that this was GPU bound to 60 FPS minimum
at one section of the game.
Moving on to the last gaming benchmark in the mix
is fortnite 10 EDP competitive settings.
We could see here that all three of these CPUs
were going well above 240 average FPS.
In a Battle Royale mode,
though the 10400 did score quite a sizable victory here
of roughly I think like 17 or 18%.
And that showed in both the 1% and point 1% lows as well,
and the 10900k also coming out ahead of this six core
and this was also tested with 3200 MegaSeal 16 Ram.
So for gaming benchmarks,
the 10400 does edge out the horizon 5 3600
and the 10400f will be pretty much the exact same as this
minus the iGPU.
Though, what about the productivity benchmarks?
Let's move on to those before we move on to a conclusion
'cause this is an important picture to paint here.
Where we're pulling up Cinebench R20.
Well we're now seeing the Ryzen 5 3600
edging out the 10400 both on the single thread
and the multi threaded scores
and this trend continued on with Geek Bench,
both on the single core scores
and the multi threaded scores.
And then we move over the last benchmark here,
Adobe Premiere Pro.
And you can pretty much see the exact same thing,
but also the Ryzen 5 3600 beat out the 10600k
in this particular benchmark.
So now that we've looked at those numbers,
there is one more important number
that I'm gonna throw up here,
which actually surprised me the most,
'cause I didn't expect this.
And this was the power consumption numbers.
And so what I did here
was I threw up the cinebench R20.
While we're running those numbers,
we saw the Ryzen 5 3600 going to around 3.975 gigahertz
and then while we're gaming it goes up to around 4.05
to 4.1 gigahertz.
Though the power consumption
during both the cinebench results and the gaming results
were higher than that of the 10400.
And the temperatures also go higher on the race stealth.
Now the race stealth is a better cooler in my opinion.
It didn't get noisy at all during any of these tests,
as opposed to the 10, four hundreds cooler,
which did get noisy in the productivity benchmark.
So let you guys take a quick listen.
(Intel Stock Cooler Max noise)
But the i5 cooler ways in just under 170 grams
was opposed to the race stealth that weighs over 310 grams.
Made almost double the weight.
So I would like to see Intel improve this stock coolers,
especially on a six core 12 thread,
which would in turn bring down the noise.
But that aside,
the temperatures were good on the stock cooler 77 degrees
versus 95 on the Ryzen 5 3600.
So perhaps the race stealth out of the box
could use some faster fan speeds.
The biggest one to me was the power consumption
during gaming.
Now we tested this during Ghost Recon
but it was a similar trend
across all the different games that are testing here
where we're getting 44 watts versus 55 watts.
And now if you're gaming all day, every day
and that's all you do,
you're going to basically
(mumble) you getting a few more FPS on the 10400.
And you're also gonna be saving a little bit more power,
which is kind of weird
because you think with a 14 nanometer CPU
versus a seven nanometer CPU,
that wouldn't be the case at all.
But that's what I'm seeing here in my studio.
And they're the numbers that I'm gonna report to you guys,
which helps me make my conclusion that much more clean cut.
And that is if you are just gaming,
and even if you wanna do a little bit of streaming,
just drop it on the GPU encoder,
then the 10400 is going to be an excellent choice
in terms of value for money,
coupled with some of these H410 Motherboards,
which will be released.
Use the stock cooler
or even just go grab a $20 AlieExpress snowman cooler
and you will have happy days.
Though, on the other side of the fence.
If you wanna do a bit of video editing,
or doing more things that involve using all those threads
all the time,
then the Ryzen 5 3600
is going to be a better choice for that.
So it's really just a nitpicking thing though
both these CPUs are going to be absolutely fine,
especially if you're coupling it
with a mid range (mumble).
Keep in mind, we did test it with a 2080 Ti at 1080p
because you guys in the comments in yesterday's video
was saying you were using 2080 Ti's at 1080p.
So--
The last thing I will say before I get on out of here
is that the i5 is definitely back,
Intel have done that
and they're making this thing competitive,
which at the end of the day,
you guys the consumers will win out
and you'll probably see price drops on the Ryzen 5 3600
where the 10400f will come in at roughly 160 USD.
So this is gonna be great happy days for gamers.
But we still have to wait and see
what this year brings in terms of GPU improvements.
But then you've got the 10400 normal version,
which includes the IGPU
which some people can utilize with quick sync functions,
whether it's using it as a backup encoder,
or encoding video files
in Premiere Pro or something like that.
This has that option if you need it.
So it is worth it if you can utilize it.
So there it is with the i5 10400.
I can definitely recommend this CPU,
just like I can recommend the Ryzen 5 3600
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what you think of these six core 12 thread CPUs.
Do you think competitions heating up?
I certainly do.
And we've got the question of the day
which comes from Gabotax Wilfried
and they ask Xeon 1680v2 at 4.5 gigahertz
with RTx2080 Ti works fine.
And the answer that is a definite yes,
that's eight cores 16 threads
and it still has really good IPC to this date.
If you get some really good DDR3 memory
and quad channel,
that thing is going to run absolutely fine.
But do keep in mind older generation Intel CPUs,
I personally disable the Specter and Meltdown updates.
I found it makes a big improvement for gaming numbers,
especially if you're a single desktop user.
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