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In short — Core i5-8400 outperforms the cheaper Athlon 3000G on the selected game parameters. However, the worse performing Athlon 3000G is a better bang for your buck. The better performing Core i5-8400 is 776 days older than the cheaper Athlon 3000G.
Advantages of Intel Core i5-8400
- Performs up to 7% better in World of Warcraft than Athlon 3000G - 181 vs 169 FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than AMD Athlon 3000G - 6 vs 4 threads
Advantages of AMD Athlon 3000G
- Up to 63% cheaper than Core i5-8400 - €65.0 vs €177.5
- Up to 61% better value when playing World of Warcraft than Core i5-8400 - €0.38 vs €0.98 per FPS
- Consumes up to 46% less energy than Intel Core i5-8400 - 35 vs 65 Watts
- Works without a dedicated GPU, while Intel Core i5-8400 doesn't have integrated graphics
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Intel Core i5-8400 Prozessor (9 MB Cache, bis zu 4,00 GHz)
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AMD Athlon 3000G 3.5 GHz Dual-Core Quad-Thread Tray-Processor CPU YD3000C6M2OFH AM4 Sockel
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Core i5-8400
Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017
Athlon 3000G
Desktop • Nov 20th, 2019
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Intel Core i5-8400 | vs | AMD Athlon 3000G |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5th, 2017 | Release Date | Nov 20th, 2019 |
| Core i5 | Collection | Athlon |
| Coffee Lake | Codename | Picasso |
| Intel Socket 1151 | Socket | AMD Socket AM4 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
6 | Cores | 2 |
6 | Threads | 4 |
| 2.8 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 3.5 GHz |
| 4.0 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | Non-Turbo |
| 65 W | TDP | 35 W |
| 14 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
| 28.0x | Multiplier | 35.0x |
| None | Integrated Graphics | Radeon Vega 3 |
| No | Overclockable | Yes |
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