AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i7-8700T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700T is faster than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T 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 i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T 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.