AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 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

3189 points
3288 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points
5718 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
2480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
57.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points
4916 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points
1875 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points
4826 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points
1815 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
200% significantly higher clock speed
1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4.5 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
10 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089
501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i3-1215U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1215U beats the Ryzen 5 2400G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2400G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2400G. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2400G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2400G. The Core i3-1215U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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