AMD Ryzen 5 8400F vs. Intel Core i5 14400F: 230+ Benchmarks For Sub-$200 CPU Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 16 May 2024 at 06:36 PM EDT. Page 2 of 12. 15 Comments.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer 3.0, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer 3.0, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: WASM collisionDetection, Browser: Google Chrome. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute, Browser: Google Chrome. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.

In web browser benchmarks using both Mozilla Firefox 126 and Google Chrome 124, the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F was faster than the Core i5 14400F across various browser benchmarks...

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Speedometer 3.0, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Firefox. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Google Chrome. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.

The CPU power consumption varied from the two competing CPUs being similar in CPU power use here to the Ryzen 5 8400F consuming less power than the Core i5 14400K.

3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
GravityMark benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Renderer: Vulkan. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Low. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultimate. Ryzen 5 8400F was the fastest.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultra. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
ET: Legacy benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.
Quake II RTX benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Global Illumination: Off, Denoiser: Off, Ray Tracing API: VK_KHR_ray_query. Core i5 14400F was the fastest.

When running various gaming/graphics benchmarks, the results were mixed between the two processors but the Ryzen 5 8400F was racking up a number of wins under this Linux-based testing.

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