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Is the Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA 1151
Clockspeed: 2.7 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.3 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 4
Typical TDP: 65 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 64 GB (DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz, Intel Core i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2015
CPUmark/$Price: NA
Overall Rank:
1985th fastest in multithreading out of 5034 CPUs
1639th fastest in single threading out of 5034 CPUs
556th fastest in out of 1420 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: NA
| Integer Math | 13,487 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 11,529 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 26 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 8,840 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 1,503 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 71,705 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 412 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,226 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,953 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,754 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,334 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,050 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,498 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,125 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,870 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,197 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,718 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,634 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,145 | |
| Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz | 5,170 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 236.43 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 130.81 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 101.30 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.35 | |
| Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | NA | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,612 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,144 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,019 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,901 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,681 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,363 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,923 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,564 | |
| Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz | 1,953 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2513520 - Mar 28 2025 | 5557 | |
| BL2512115 - Mar 27 2025 | 5416 | |
| BL2511985 - Mar 27 2025 | 5367 | |
| BL2511670 - Mar 27 2025 | 5270 | |
| BL2507524 - Mar 25 2025 | 4471 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz | 5,170 | |
| Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 6,306 (+22.0%) | |
| Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.30GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 6,057 (+17.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 5,621 (+8.7%) | |
| Intel Core i5-6500T @ 2.50GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 4,762 (-7.9%) | |
| Intel Core i3-6100 @ 3.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 4,125 (-20.2%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 6,269 (+21.3%) | |
| Intel Core i5-5675C @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 5,697 (+10.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-6600T @ 2.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 5,580 (+7.9%) | |
| Intel Core i5-5575R @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 5,095 (-1.4%) | |
| Intel Core i3-6320 @ 3.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 4,409 (-14.7%) | |
| Intel Core i3-6300 @ 3.80GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 4,336 (-16.1%) | |
| Intel Core i5-6400T @ 2.20GHz vs Intel Core i5-6400 | 4,265 (-17.5%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,187 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,340 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,856 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,606 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,538 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,296 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,825 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,698 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,530 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235 | 9,445 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | 9,407 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 9,292 | |
| Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz | 614 |
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