Intel Core i5-8400H vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

3416 points

3431 points

0.44% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5247 points

5471 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2859 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2815 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2743 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2700 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.94 points

75.50 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

Identical

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

494th of 1,089

492nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 PRO Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2019 September

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 i5-8400H vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400H beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400H. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400H. Despite this, the Core i5-8400H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-8400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.