AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i7-6800K

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Intel Core i7-6800K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 6 / May 2016
Intel Core i7-6800K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    116%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    133%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

75 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the Intel Core i7-6800K.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-6800K

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 33% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 16% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i7-6800K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6800K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i7-6800K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6800K

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
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
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Broadwell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsBroadwell-E
Release DateJan 2018vsMay 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
Cores4vs6
Threads8vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 11vsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs32 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache1024 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
Packagevs
Die Size246mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2400GIntel Core i7-6800K
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs3800 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    4290 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    4256 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    19324 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    27417 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    154
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    820
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    1096

points - higher is better