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    Intel Core i5-9400

    Worth it over AMD's Ryzen? We find out.
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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Interesting but not surprising results. If you're purely gaming then Intel is a lot better because of its single core performance is a lot stronger. But in other workloads the Ryzen either matches it or beats it.

    I'm waiting to see how Zen 2 will be able to compete with Intel in terms of single core perf but it probably still won't match it but hopefully should get a lot closer.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Part of the Spectre fixes was cutting HT as it was one of the main vectors. It will take till 2020 for all the fixes to be pushed to hardware with Intel chips. Thus why Coffee Lake and beyond will not have HT.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by AlvieM View Post
    Interesting but not surprising results. If you're purely gaming then Intel is a lot better because of its single core performance is a lot stronger. But in other workloads the Ryzen either matches it or beats it.
    A lot stronger? The results show 168 vs 153 fps in F1, under 10% difference and staying well withing the comfortable range of a variable sync display. Not what I would call "A lot", and that's assuming lightly threaded games which not all of them are.

    The only big difference in there is the PiFast results which are utterly meaningless because there isn't any other workload that I have ever come across that is like it.

    Edit: I like how the first section is titled "Conclusion", good for confusing people who just skip to the end

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    A lot stronger? The results show 168 vs 153 fps in F1, under 10% difference and staying well withing the comfortable range of a variable sync display. Not what I would call "A lot", and that's assuming lightly threaded games which not all of them are.

    The only big difference in there is the PiFast results which are utterly meaningless because there isn't any other workload that I have ever come across that is like it.

    Edit: I like how the first section is titled "Conclusion", good for confusing people who just skip to the end
    I guess "a lot stronger" is an exaggeration but it is still significant in my opinion.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    I'd love to see a Real World benchmark, with the gamer's reality: Discord open and voice chat on, 2 or 3 chrome tabs running, Steam, keyboard and mouse software loaded in the systray, and eventually streaming to Twitch.

    Its true that poorly optimised games will favour less threads, but with the Real World setup you'd be hammering the CPU with a load of different apps... its not just one game anymore.

    That would be a very interesting test to see.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by AlvieM View Post
    I guess "a lot stronger" is an exaggeration but it is still significant in my opinion.
    *Shrug*, you must be way more sensitive to frame rates than I am if you can tell a 10% difference, specially with adaptive sync.

    But then I chose largely for work use where I want lots of threads, but what started my last upgrade was Elite Dangerous in VR which on the Rift seems to eat as many threads as you can throw at it.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by AlvieM View Post
    I guess "a lot stronger" is an exaggeration but it is still significant in my opinion.
    *Shrug*, you must be way more sensitive to frame rates than I am if you can tell a 10% difference, specially with adaptive sync.

    But then I chose largely for work use where I want lots of threads, but what started my last upgrade was Elite Dangerous in VR which on the Rift seems to eat as many threads as you can throw at it.
    I was about to post similar, plus at higher than 1080p the CPU's are neck and neck basically. Nothing significant about that in my opinion.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    *Shrug*, you must be way more sensitive to frame rates than I am if you can tell a 10% difference, specially with adaptive sync.

    But then I chose largely for work use where I want lots of threads, but what started my last upgrade was Elite Dangerous in VR which on the Rift seems to eat as many threads as you can throw at it.
    Probably not in that title and resolution but there will be others where the FPS will be lower and those the difference might be noticeable

    Obviously not every game but perhaps those optimised for Intel / single core.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Why no comparisons with the previous gen?

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    It bugs me whenever people conflate 1080p results with a top-end GPU with all 1080p results. You're giving the impression that a mid-range system is better off with intel ("it's better at 1080p, and that's what I play at"), when an actual test with a mid range card won't show a difference at 1080p between AMD or intel (like the 4k results). The actual difference is high-refresh-rate gaming (where the CPU overhead is greater) - the resolution this shows up at is a function of GPU, not CPU

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by Usernamist View Post
    Why no comparisons with the previous gen?
    Hi there,

    Because we chose to update the drivers and try different settings for some benchmarks. If you look under the Test Methodology page, there is a link to older editorial with a plethora of CPUs, including the near-identical Core i5-8400. This was an as-today evaluation.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by AlvieM View Post
    Probably not in that title and resolution but there will be others where the FPS will be lower and those the difference might be noticeable

    Obviously not every game but perhaps those optimised for Intel / single core.
    I have yet to see any results which look like gameplay will be impacted by having a Ryzen CPU. There are more comparisons here:

    https://www.techspot.com/review/1829...ryzen-5-2600x/

    I'm ignoring the overclock results as you can't rely on those, I think they make the 2600X look artificially too good and personally I don't overclock.

    Far Cry looks pretty bad for AMD there, until you see that the 2600X is getting minimums of 73fps at 1080p, and if you are on 1080p that is either maxing out your 60Hz monitor or in this house comfortably handled by FreeSync. But some interesting comments in that review:

    Battlefield V:
    The experience with the 9400F for the most part was very good, but whereas the 2600X was silky smooth at all times, the 6-core Intel CPU suffered odd frame stuttering here and there.
    Using DDR4-2666 memory the 9400F was a little jittery in Monster Hunter: World
    So with the Intel chip you have to overclock memory to get smooth gameplay?

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Intel still hanging tough on 14nm+++++++++ ?
    Get the #uck outa here. Mean while AMD is at
    7nm moving towards 5nm, not that, that's
    important thing to mention here...........

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    The obvious thing to point out here is that frame rates in games are fairly useless in that normally, investment in the GPU is the plan of choice rather than upgrading a CPU for FPS. 1080 is chosen here as most of the time these workloads are GPU bound and so you'd not spend more on a CPU for frame rates except in very specific games.

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    Re: Intel Core i5-9400

    Quote Originally Posted by albert89 View Post
    Intel still hanging tough on 14nm+++++++++ ?
    Get the #uck outa here. Mean while AMD is at
    7nm moving towards 5nm, not that, that's
    important thing to mention here...........
    Yeah, Intel still seems to be having a lot of problems with the 10nm and 7nm manufacturing process

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