AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i5-4300U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 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

2653 points
172% significantly better overall score
972 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
122% significantly better gaming score
1897 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
200% significantly better multitasking score
726 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
201% significantly better heavy workload score
696 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
20.06 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1465 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
782 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1469 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
789 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
2.9 GHz

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

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
959th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i5-4300U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1400 beats the Core i5-4300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300U. Also, the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4300U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-4300U. The Ryzen 5 1400 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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