AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i5-8365U

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 i5-8365U

Price

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$ 87.91

$ 1190.09 significantly less expensive

$ 1278.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

77% significantly better overall score

1927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

58% significantly better gaming score

3320 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

85% significantly better multitasking score

1537 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

85% significantly better heavy workload score

1474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

41.28 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2419 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

638 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

131% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

731st 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

2019 May

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 i5-8365U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8365U 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 i5-8365U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8365U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.