AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i5-8400

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i5-8400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300G beats the Core i5-8400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Indeed, the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300G. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300G has more threads than the Core i5-8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a much higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300G 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 5300G 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 5300G.

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 Ryzen 3 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.