Intel Core i5-8400 6-Core 6-Thread CPU Review

Gaming Performance

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The Intel Core i5-8400 is designed to be a straight-up gaming CPU, or at least that’s going to be the market that has the largest demand for it. It may lack hyperthreading, but 6 powerful CPU cores will help performance in demanding gaming tasks. Fortunately, we can see that’s true right away, as the CPU set our second fastest score in Deus Ex at stock clocks, and it held onto second place while overclocked, which is very impressive. It scored great at 4K too, and is one of three CPUs on our charts to beat 60fps at 4K while overclocked!

1080p Stock

1080p Overclocked

2160p Stock

2160p Overclocked

Rise of the Tomb Raider

In a complete shocker, it set our fastest ever score at stock for Tomb Raider! It lost that lead while overclocked, albeit to much more expensive CPUs. Of course, 205.7 fps is mighty impressive. 4K performance wasn’t as impressive as Deus Ex, but still well over that 60fps golden number.

1080p Stock

1080p Overclocked

2160p Stock

2160p Overclocked

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Again, absolutely fantastic 1080p performance, with some very high scores overall at stock and overclocked settings. 4K didn’t do badly either, with great frame rates throughout, and while it doesn’t overclock as high as other CPUs, the scores are very competitive.

1080p Stock

1080p Overclocked

2160p Stock

2160p Overclocked

Far Cry Primal

Far Cry Primal loves the new Intel CPUs! The new i5 set the highest score yet… somehow, even beating out the new i7. Don’t ask me how, we re-tested as we always do, and there it is. The i5 did drop down a few places while overclocked, but just look at that i7-8700K, scoring 162! Even more amazing, is that the i5 scored some of our best ever scores at 4K too. This CPU is shaping up to be a killer option for any gamer.

1080p Stock

1080p Overclocked

2160p Stock

2160p Overclocked