AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-8400

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 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

$ 130.00
$ 39.99 significantly less expensive
$ 169.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
11% slightly better overall score
3741 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
9% slightly better gaming score
6024 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
3030 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
2906 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3658 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
77.12 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4729 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1312 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4858 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1380 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
Identical
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
456th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-8400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500X performs better than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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