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

Ryzen 5 2400GE vs Core i5-8279U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8279U beats the Ryzen 5 2400GE in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2400GE in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2400GE has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 2400GE thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 2400GE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.