AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i5-8500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the Core i5-8500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3400G has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. Despite this, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G.

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.