AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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

3189 points

2% slightly better overall score

3124 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points

5063 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

2428 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

56.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points

3954 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points

1137 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points

4152 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points

1193 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

9 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089

521st 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

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 2400G vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2400G is faster than the Core i5-8500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2400G has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2400G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 2400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2400G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. Despite this, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2400G.

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.