AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i5-8300H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

3411 points

20% slightly better overall score

2837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

15% slightly better gaming score

4554 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

2331 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

2236 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2480 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

55.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

3631 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

1233 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

3732 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

1267 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

564th 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

2019 July

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 3400G vs Core i5-8300H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3400G performs better than the Core i5-8300H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8300H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8300H. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8300H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3400G 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 3400G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8300H. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G.

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 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.