AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Pentium G4400. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Pentium
• Generation
  3 6
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000 Intel Pentium G4000
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 5 2600 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  12 2
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 510
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12.0
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2015

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium G4400 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and Intel Pentium G4400 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 51 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  32.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Matisse (Zen 2) Skylake S
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q3/2015