AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i5-8600

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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Price

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$ 109.99
$ 55.00 significantly less expensive
$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3189 points
4056 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points
6549 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points
3280 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points
3148 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points
85.30 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points
4766 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points
1335 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points
5012 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points
1461 points
40% slightly 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
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
431st 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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i5-8600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2400G is faster than the Core i5-8600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8600 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 i5-8600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8600. Despite this, the Core i5-8600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Ryzen 5 2400G has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600. Despite this, the Core i5-8600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2400G.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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