AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-11400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 184.99
$ 129.99
$ 55.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
30% slightly better overall score
5682 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
4% slightly better gaming score
8370 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
4847 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score
4675 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5721 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
144.07 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7150 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1888 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7262 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1960 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
276th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-11400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen 7 5700G also has slightly more 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 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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