Intel Core i5-8400 vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

3% slightly better overall score

3624 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5808 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2975 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2856 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

40.95 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4326 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

1509 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

470th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 3 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8400 vs Ryzen 3 5425U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 5425U performs better than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Indeed, the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has more threads than the Core i5-8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5425U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 5425U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.