AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i5-8400

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 90.00 significantly less expensive
$ 169.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
3741 points
63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
6024 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
3030 points
72% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
2906 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
3658 points
34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
77.12 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
4729 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1312 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
4858 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1380 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
456th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i5-8400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400 beats the Ryzen 3 1200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 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 1200. Indeed, the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 1200. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 1200 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 1200.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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