AMD Ryzen 5 8400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Price

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$ 165.69

$ 56.81 significantly less expensive

$ 222.50

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7722 points

1% slightly better overall score

7604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10390 points

10588 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6857 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

6642 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6632 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

6422 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6145 points

6178 points

0.54% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

179.45 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

173.75 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz

4.35 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

157th of 1,089

161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 April

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 8400F vs Ryzen 5 8600G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 8400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.