AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-8400H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 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

3338 points

3416 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5247 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

2859 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

2743 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

39.94 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

4657 points

1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3529 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1294 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3639 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1282 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.5 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% 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

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

494th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-8400H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8400H performs better than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400H. Despite this, the Core i5-8400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 5 1500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400H. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has slightly 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 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.