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Rate My PC: Intel Core i5-13400 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2

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86%

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90%

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Intel Core i5-13400

24,280 Benchmark Score

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2

16,504 Benchmark Score

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90-100

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70-89

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50-69

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30-49

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1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

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The pairing of Intel's Core i5-13400 with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 is an unusual desktop combination: a mid-tier, efficiency-focused 10-core processor mated to a flagship-class Blackwell 2.0 accelerator. The benchmark data shows a build with a combined percentile of 68 across tracked systems, defined by an extreme asymmetry between GPU horsepower and CPU throughput. The CPU sits at the 76th percentile against all tracked processors with an average benchmark score of 24280, while the GPU posts a single recorded result — 16504 in 3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12) — with a percentile of 59 against all tracked GPUs. No measured FPS rows exist for this exact combination in the database, so all frame-rate discussion below is framed as estimation derived from the benchmark scores rather than direct measurement.

Balance and Bottleneck

This build is GPU-heavy in character but CPU-limited in practice at lower resolutions and in heavily threaded workloads. The Core i5-13400's benchmark profile clarifies where the ceiling sits. Its 3DMark CPU scaling scores climb from 959 in the single-thread test to 5592 at eight threads and 7315 at sixteen threads, then flatten to 7310 at maximum threads — evidence that the 10-core, 16-thread configuration saturates near sixteen active threads and gains nothing beyond them. With SMT fully loaded, the chip delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 15953 against a single-core score of 1786.

The RTX 5090 D V2, by contrast, brings 21760 shading units, 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, and 1.34 TB/s of memory bandwidth — resources that will not be fully consumed by a processor of this class in CPU-bound scenarios. At 4K in graphically demanding titles, the GPU's Steel Nomad score of 16504 suggests the processor will rarely be the limiter. At 1080p, where the render load shifts toward draw-call throughput and per-frame CPU work, the i5-13400's 3DMark single-thread score of 959 and its PassMark single-thread score of 3538 define the frame-rate ceiling well before the GPU reaches its limits. The balance verdict: acceptable at high resolution, increasingly bottlenecked as resolution falls.

Gaming Performance

The database contains no measured FPS entries for this pairing — measuredFpsUltraByGame is empty and dataIsMeasured is false — so every figure in this section is an estimate derived from benchmark scores, not a recorded result. The Steel Nomad DX12 score of 16504 anchors the expectations. In the rival table, that score sits essentially even with the NVIDIA T400 (16508, deltaPct 0), marginally ahead of the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 (16415, deltaPct 0.5), the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (16408, deltaPct 0.6), and the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (16361, deltaPct 0.9). Those deltas indicate the card's recorded benchmark position is tightly clustered with its listed rivals in this database's scoring model.

For gameplay, the estimation logic is straightforward. At 4K ultra settings, the GPU's shader count, 170 RT cores, and 24 GB of GDDR7 should sustain high frame rates in modern titles, and the 384-bit bus with 28 Gbps effective memory means texture-heavy scenes are unlikely to strain capacity. At 1440p and especially 1080p, the i5-13400 becomes the constraint: its 3DMark sixteen-thread score of 7315 and physics-oriented PassMark score of 1244 indicate a processor that feeds a flagship GPU well at high resolution but will cap frames in competitive, CPU-heavy engines. All of this remains estimation; no per-game FPS rows exist for this combination.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming. The CPU profile argues against this pairing for high-refresh 1080p play. The single-thread scores — 959 in 3DMark, 1786 in Cinebench R23 — place a hard ceiling on frame delivery that a card of the RTX 5090 D V2's class cannot lift. At 4K, where the GPU's 1.34 TB/s of bandwidth and 104.8 TFLOPS do the heavy lifting, the picture improves considerably.

Streaming. The 16-thread configuration helps here. Encoding runs alongside gameplay consume threads beyond what games need, and the sixteen-thread 3DMark score of 7315 shows the chip scales to that count before flattening. NVENC-style offload to the GPU's 680 tensor cores and dedicated hardware further reduces CPU pressure, making single-PC streaming plausible at high resolution.

Video editing. The asymmetry cuts both ways. Timeline scrubbing, effects, and GPU-accelerated exports benefit from 24 GB of GDDR7 and 1.34 TB/s of bandwidth, while CPU-bound codecs rely on the R23 multi-core score of 15953 — capable mid-tier throughput that trails the GPU's class by a wide margin. Editing at 4K is workable; the CPU will be the slower half of the pipeline.

3D rendering. Viewport work leans on the GPU's 170 RT cores and 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32, which is strong. Final CPU rendering passes depend on the Geekbench multi-core score of 12289 and the Cinebench R20 multi-core result of 8526 — solid, upper-mainstream numbers, not workstation numbers. Hybrid rendering that pushes work to the GPU is the right strategy with this build.

Software development. Compilation, containerized workloads, and parallel test suites map well onto 10 cores and 16 threads. The PassMark multithread score of 23719 and integer math score of 77721 support comfortable developer use, and the 20 MB of shared L3 cache helps larger working sets. This is one of the pairings' more balanced use profiles.

Student and office work. The single-core results — Geekbench 2112, PassMark 3538 — indicate snappy everyday responsiveness, and a 65 W TDP keeps the platform quiet and cool for dorm or office duty. The GPU is heavily over-specified for this scenario, but nothing in the data penalizes that for basic productivity.

Who Should Build It

The data describes three realistic owner profiles. First, high-resolution gamers: players targeting 4K ultra settings, where the GPU's 1.34 TB/s memory bandwidth and 24 GB frame buffer dominate outcomes and the i5-13400's per-frame contribution is diluted. Second, GPU-first content creators: professionals whose pipelines — viewport rendering, GPU-accelerated exports, AI-assisted tools running on 680 tensor cores — spend most of their time on the graphics card and only occasionally on the CPU. Third, developers and small-business workstation builders: those who need the PassMark multithread result of 23719 for builds and tests plus a top-tier GPU for occasional compute or rendering, and who value the 65 W CPU TDP for a cooler, quieter chassis. What the data does not support is a competitive low-resolution gamer: the 3DMark single-thread score of 959 rules that out as a sensible use of this hardware.

Benchmark Performance

The combined picture is a 68th-percentile desktop build with a strong tilt. On the CPU side, the Core i5-13400 posts 24280 as its average benchmark score, placing it at the 76th percentile against all tracked CPUs. Its nearest rivals are clustered within a fraction of a percent: the Intel Core i7-1360P at 24344 (deltaPct -0.3), the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650H at 24364 (deltaPct -0.3), the AMD Ryzen 5 7540U at 24188 (deltaPct 0.4), and — an outlier in this table — the AMD EPYC 9654P at 24465 (deltaPct -0.8). Those deltas frame the i5-13400 as statistically even with its listed rivals on aggregate scoring, despite radically different silhouettes.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5090 D V2's recorded footprint is narrower: a single 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 16504, an average benchmark score of 16504, and a percentile of 59 against all tracked GPUs. Its rivals in the database — the T400 at 16508, the Radeon PRO W7500 at 16415, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell at 16408, and the RX 5700 XT at 16361 — sit within one percent of it in score terms. The combined 68th percentile is therefore pulled in two directions: a mid-tier processor aggregate and a single-score GPU record that the ranking model places mid-pack. The practical takeaway from the full dataset is that this build's real-world rank depends heavily on workload type, since its two halves occupy very different performance tiers.

GPU Analysis

The RTX 5090 D V2 is built on the GB202 chip, a 750 mm² die fabricated by TSMC on a 5 nm process, packing 92,200 million transistors at a density of 122.9M per mm². The architecture is Blackwell 2.0, and the hardware inventory is extensive: 21760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, 176 render output units, 170 RT cores, and 680 tensor cores. Clocks run from a 2017 MHz base to a 2407 MHz boost, with memory clocked at 1750 MHz — 28 Gbps effective — across a 384-bit bus. That yields 1.34 TB/s of bandwidth feeding 24 GB of GDDR7. Throughput figures include 423.6 GPixel/s of pixel rate, 1636.8 GTexel/s of texture rate, and 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32, with FP16 running at the same rate on a 1:1 basis.

For rendering workloads, these numbers translate into strong ray-traced and rasterized output. The 170 RT cores matter for path-tracing and ray-traced lighting passes, while the 680 tensor cores drive AI-assisted upscaling and denoising, which stretch effective frame rates further in supported engines. The Steel Nomad score of 16504 is the single recorded validation of this configuration in the database; its percentile of 59 against all tracked GPUs reflects that limited benchmark coverage as much as raw capability. With Vulkan 1.4, DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), and OpenGL 4.6 support, the API surface covers modern engines fully. The card draws up to 575 W through a single 16-pin connector, occupies a dual-slot footprint, and measures 304 mm long by 137 mm tall by 48 mm wide — dimensions that demand a spacious case.

CPU Analysis

The Core i5-13400 is a Raptor Lake-S processor on Intel's 10 nm node, launched with an i5-class configuration of 10 cores and 16 threads, a 215 mm² die, and a 65 W TDP. Clocks span a 2.50 GHz base to a 4.60 GHz boost. Cache allocation is 80 KB of L1 per core, 1.25 MB of L2 per core, and 20 MB of shared L3. Memory support covers both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, the multiplier is locked, and the package uses Intel Socket 1700. Integrated UHD Graphics 730 is present as a fallback output solution.

The benchmark scores define the chip's real-workload character precisely. In Cinebench, it posts 2358 multi / 257 single in R15, 8526 multi / 1203 single in R20, and 15953 multi / 1786 single in R23 — a steady scaling pattern that shows the hybrid thread arrangement delivering roughly nine times its single-thread figure at full load. Geekbench records 12289 multi and 2112 single. The PassMark suite adds texture: 23719 multithreaded, 3538 single-threaded, 77721 in integer math, 58786 in floating point, 301481 in data compression, 15880 in encryption, 19161 in extended instructions, 30851 in string sorting, 74 in prime finding, and 1244 in physics. For real workloads, this means comfortable parallel compilation, solid audio and video encode throughput, and good everyday latency — with the locked multiplier removing overclocking as a path to more.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The platform anchors on Intel Socket 1700, which gives the build a defined CPU upgrade lane: the same socket accepts faster Raptor Lake-class processors, so a future swap can raise the 3DMark single-thread and multi-thread ceilings without replacing the motherboard. Memory flexibility is a genuine strength — DDR4 and DDR5 are both supported on the dual-channel bus — though a fresh build is best served by DDR5 to feed the system's bandwidth-hungry GPU. The CPU provides PCIe Gen 5 with 16 lanes from the processor, which matches the RTX 5090 D V2's PCIe 5.0 x16 bus interface exactly, so no interface bottleneck exists between the two halves of this pairing.

Power is the platform's most demanding constraint. The GPU alone is rated at 575 W with a suggested PSU of 950 W, and the CPU contributes a modest 65 W. The suggested 950 W unit therefore leaves ample headroom for the pair plus board, drives, and fans. A sensible next upgrade is clear from the data: the CPU. Replacing the i5-13400 with a higher-performing Socket 1700 part would directly attack the single-thread score of 959 and the sixteen-thread score of 7315 that currently cap low-resolution frame rates and threaded throughput, while the GPU's 24 GB, 1.34 TB/s profile has room to spare for years of resolution and detail increases.

FAQ

Q: Does the database contain measured game FPS for this exact pairing?

A: No. There are no measured FPS rows for this combination, and all frame-rate expectations in this analysis are estimates derived from the CPU and GPU benchmark scores.

Q: Is the Core i5-13400 a bottleneck for the RTX 5090 D V2?

A: It depends on resolution. At 4K the GPU's 1.34 TB/s of bandwidth and 104.8 TFLOPS dominate; at 1080p and 1440p, the CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 959 becomes the limiting factor.

Q: What PSU does this build need?

A: The GPU's suggested PSU rating is 950 W. The GPU itself draws up to 575 W via one 16-pin connector, and the CPU adds a 65 W TDP, so a 950 W unit provides comfortable headroom.

Q: Can the Core i5-13400 be overclocked?

A: No. The multiplier is locked, so performance tuning is limited to stock behavior with a 4.60 GHz maximum boost clock.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals?

A: Its average benchmark score of 24280 sits within one percent of the Intel Core i7-1360P (24344), AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650H (24364), AMD Ryzen 5 7540U (24188), and AMD EPYC 9654P (24465) in this database's scoring.

Q: Does the build support DDR5 memory?

A: Yes. The Core i5-13400 supports both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel memory bus, and the CPU supplies PCIe Gen 5 with 16 lanes to match the GPU's PCIe 5.0 x16 interface.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 5090 D V2 have, and why does it matter?

A: 24 GB of GDDR7 on a 384-bit bus with 1.34 TB/s of bandwidth. That capacity and bandwidth support high-resolution texture sets and GPU rendering workloads without memory pressure.

Build Overview

This is a desktop-class build, as flagged by the buildClass field, with a combined percentile of 68 across tracked systems. Its defining trait is imbalance: a 76th-percentile CPU — a 10-core, 16-thread Raptor Lake part with mid-tier throughput and excellent efficiency at 65 W — paired with a flagship-specification Blackwell 2.0 GPU carrying 24 GB of GDDR7, 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32, and a 575 W power rating. The data characterizes it as a high-resolution gaming and GPU-compute platform whose processor is the deliberate compromise. For workloads that concentrate on the graphics card, it performs like its top-tier half suggests; for workloads that saturate the CPU, it performs like its 24280 average score indicates. Builders who accept that trade-off — and who plan a Socket 1700 CPU upgrade later — get the most from what the benchmark data shows this pairing to be.

Rate My PC: Intel Core i5-13400 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2

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