AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i5-8350U

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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Intel Core i5-8350U

Price

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$ 87.91

$ 901.09 significantly less expensive

$ 989.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

75% significantly better overall score

1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

61% significantly better gaming score

3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

81% significantly better multitasking score

1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

82% significantly better heavy workload score

1497 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

41.73 points

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

117% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% 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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

728th 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

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i5-8350U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3400G performs better than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U 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 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3400G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U 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.