AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-2400

AMD Ryzen 5 1600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 6 / Apr 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Intel Core i5-2400
Intel Socket 1155DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2011
Intel Core i5-2400

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    186%
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    112%
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    215%
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1600

12% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 115% 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).
Around 86% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-2400

Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 5 1600.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1600

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
TXT
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameZenvsSandy Bridge
Release DateApr 2017vsJan 2011

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 2000

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA10
Die Size192mm²vs216mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-2400
Cpu Frequency3200 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clock3600 MHzvs3400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    3960 points
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    3400 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    25766 points
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    12400 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    8222
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    5715

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    4538
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    4425

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    25970
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    15344

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    12.57
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    5.09

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    147
  • Intel Core i5-2400 (simulated)
    112.11

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    1134
  • Intel Core i5-2400 (simulated)
    441.52

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    12.7
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    11.1

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    5.2
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    11.7

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    3363.5
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    3194

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    177
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    137

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    68.7
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    26.7

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    6
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    2.4

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    1
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    0.38

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    0.65
  • Intel Core i5-2400
    0.21

GB/s