AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 109.99
$ 249.01 significantly less expensive
$ 359.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3189 points
7984 points
150% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points
9165 points
87% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points
7574 points
183% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points
7434 points
189% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3483 points
8151 points
134% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points
208.15 points
206% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points
9777 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points
2159 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points
9888 points
206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points
2246 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089
149th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i7-11700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2400G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2400G. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 2400G and Core i7-11700K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2400G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its 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 i7-11700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2400G. The Core i7-11700K 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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