AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 87.91
$ 181.09 significantly less expensive
$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points
9859 points
189% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points
9924 points
88% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points
9836 points
245% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points
9828 points
259% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points
10192 points
156% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points
313.97 points
355% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points
11764 points
232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points
2141 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points
11794 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points
2200 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
Identical
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.8 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
64 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Ryzen 9 5900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3400G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Both the Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 9 5900X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU because of its 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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