AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

3189 points

30% slightly better overall score

2436 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points

33% slightly better gaming score

3645 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

2073 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

2006 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

58.56 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points

3618 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points

1163 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points

3733 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points

1205 points

16% 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

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.1 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089

640th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i5-8279U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2400G is faster than the Core i5-8279U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8279U. Despite this, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8279U 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 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 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.