AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 87.91

$ 57.09 significantly less expensive

$ 145.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

5020 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

6843 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

4448 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

4307 points

57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points

5545 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

141.41 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500GT is faster than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3400G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.