AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF vs Intel Core i5-9400T. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 9
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 2000 Intel Core i 9000
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Core i5-8400T
• Successor
  -- Intel Core i5-10400T

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
  3.20 GHz 1.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 6
• Turbo (6 Cores)
  3.40 GHz 2.80 GHz
• 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 UHD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017

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 / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-9400T and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF and Intel Core i5-9400T to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 35 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF, 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 9.00 MB
• Architecture
  Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+) Coffee Lake S Refresh
• Technology
  12 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1151-2
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q2/2019