amd ryzen 5 5600g vs intel core i5 9400f

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (Desktop) 6-cores against Intel Core i5 9400F (Desktop) 6-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and Intel Core i5 9400F
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Around 9.6 GB/s (19%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 7 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4.1 GHz)
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
  • Unlocked multiplier
Advantages of Intel Core i5 9400F

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1499
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
11231
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3194
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
19894
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1499
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
7639

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5600g and core i5 9400f

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Vendor AMD Intel
Released April 13 2021 January 7 2019
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne Coffee Lake-R
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Cores 6 6
Threads 12 6
Base Frequency 3.9 GHz 2.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.4 GHz 4.1 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB 9 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 W 65 W
Max. temperature 95°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4-2666
Memory Size GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 41.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz MHz
Shading Units 448
TMUs 28
ROPs 7
TGP 0 W W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i5 9400F
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5600G official page Intel Core i5 9400F official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i5 9400F or AMD Ryzen 5 5600G?