AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-9400T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 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

4496 points
56% significantly better overall score
2871 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
28% slightly better gaming score
4694 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
72% significantly better multitasking score
2315 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score
2214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
61.59 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3990 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1154 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
77% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
556th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 May

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 5 1600 vs Core i5-9400T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Core i5-9400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 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 1600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400T. The Ryzen 5 1600 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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