AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i5-7600K

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Intel Core i5-7600K
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
Intel Core i5-7600K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    103%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    116%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    121%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 21% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-7600K

16% higher single threaded performance.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AVX
AES
F16C
BMI1
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
AES-NI
CLMUL
FMA3
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsKaby Lake
Release DateJan 2018vsSep 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
Cores4vs4
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 11vsIntel HD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache1024 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
Packagevs
Die Size246mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i5-7600K
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3800 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs4000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    4290 points
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    4800 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    19324 points
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    18240 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    154
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    179.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    820
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    674

points - higher is better