AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i5-8279U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3450U is faster than the Core i5-8279U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. Also, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8279U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.