AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-8400H. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 8
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000U Intel Core i 8000H

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
  2.30 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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
  AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir) Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  7 24
• Shader
  448 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-8400H and AMD Ryzen 5 5600U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200LPDDR4-4266 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5600U and Intel Core i5-8400H to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 45 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  10 W --
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600U and AMD Ryzen 5 5600U, 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, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) Coffee Lake H
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP6 BGA 1440
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q2/2018