Encoding and Rendering Performance

Our HandBrake workload doesn't agree with Ryzen and even the Core i5-7600K beats the Ryzen 5 1500X, which explains why the Core i5-8400 is able to match the R5 1600. It was as well just xv% faster than the 7600K and the reason for that existence that the older Kaby Lake part operates at higher frequencies.

Content creators might be interested in what the Core i5-8400 has to offer. Test with Premiere Pro CC showed the Intel half-dozen-core CPU to be nine% faster than AMD'southward Ryzen 5 1600 in this application. Of course you can overclock the Ryzen 5 processor and that will no doubt put it ahead, merely nevertheless an impressive out of the box result for Intel.

The Ryzen Graphic 27 workload shows the Core i5-8400 but abaft the Ryzen 5 1600 processor by a slim margin in Blender while information technology was significantly faster than the R5 1500X and i5-7600K.

The more extreme Gooseberry workload really sees the Cadre i5-8400 perform much closer to the R5 1500X than the R5 1600. Although it was an impressive 21% faster than the i5-7600K, it was as well 24% slower than the R5 1600.

Next upwards we take the Corona benchmark and here the Core i5-8400 wasn't much faster than the Ryzen five 1500X, completing the workload 6% faster. It was however 42% faster than the 7600K, so that'due south an impressive footstep forrad.

The final application benchmark looks at performance using POVRay and here the Core i5-8400 finds itself situated betwixt the Ryzen 5 1600 and 1500X, as well as last generation'due south Core i7-7700K and i5-7600K.