AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i5-8600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8600K 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 i5-8600K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Indeed, the Core i5-8600K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2400G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Both the Ryzen 5 2400G and Core i5-8600K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2400G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its 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 i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2400G.

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.