AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 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
$ 22.04 slightly less expensive
$ 109.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points
4209 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points
7% slightly better gaming score
4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points
3976 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points
3900 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points
78.82 points
14% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
76% significantly lower TDP
115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089
418th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3400G vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 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 Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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