AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-8400T

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-8400T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Core i5-8400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400T. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.