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Is the Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Class: Desktop
Socket: FCLGA1151-2
Clockspeed: 2.8 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.0 GHz
Cores: 6 Threads: 6
Typical TDP: 65 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 6 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 9 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 128 GB (DDR4-2666)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz, Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2017
CPUmark/$Price: 61.94
Overall Rank:
1607th fastest in multithreading out of 5495 CPUs
1279th fastest in single threading out of 5495 CPUs
479th fastest in out of 1484 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $148.99 USD (2025-12-15)
| Integer Math | 25,564 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 22,019 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 37 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 15,913 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,835 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 129,762 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 636 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 11,539 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,367 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,548 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,348 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,953 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,148 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,844 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,549 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,107 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,684 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,653 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,142 | |
| Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz | 9,229 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 263.94 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 164.62 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 159.57 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 133.37 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 122.20 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 106.30 | |
| Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz | 61.94 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.74 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 4,697 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,601 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,889 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,833 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,677 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,487 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,467 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,915 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,561 | |
| Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz | 2,367 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3130308 - Dec 13 2025 | 9696 | |
| BL3130146 - Dec 13 2025 | 10154 | |
| BL3129634 - Dec 13 2025 | 8107 | |
| BL3129464 - Dec 12 2025 | 4335 | |
| BL3129162 - Dec 12 2025 | 10007 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz | 9,229 | |
| Intel Core i5-8600K @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 10,135 (+9.8%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8500 @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 9,521 (+3.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-9600K @ 3.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 10,646 (+15.4%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8500T @ 2.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 7,737 (-16.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-9500 @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 9,833 (+6.5%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8600 @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 9,963 (+8.0%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 9,073 (-1.7%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8400T @ 1.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 7,425 (-19.5%) | |
| Intel Core i5-9500F @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 9,983 (+8.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-9400T @ 1.80GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 8,177 (-11.4%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 7,563 (-18.0%) | |
| Intel Core i5-7640X @ 4.00GHz vs Intel Core i5-8400 | 7,060 (-23.5%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,440 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,126 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,253 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,796 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,518 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,444 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D | 10,309 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,269 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,778 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,699 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,469 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,409 | |
| Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz | 1,398 |
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