AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-6400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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

$ 184.99
$ 99.99
$ 85.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
249% significantly better overall score
2127 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
120% significantly better gaming score
3959 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
333% significantly better multitasking score
1617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
343% significantly better heavy workload score
1551 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
125% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2971 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
393% significantly higher Blender score
39.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2948 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1079 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3046 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1116 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
39% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 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
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
699th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

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 i5-6400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700G is faster than the Core i5-6400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-6400 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6400. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6400. The Ryzen 7 5700G 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 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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