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AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Cpu
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Intel Core i5 8400 Cpu
Intel Core i5 8400
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Ari Altman | The Tech Buyer's Guru | April 3, 2021 | AMD has set a solid standard with its APUs, but can the 3000-series pull ahead?Read more
AMD's Ryzen 3 3200G is a good-value budget CPU with surprising graphics pep, but its Ryzen 5 kin offers better performance for just a bit more money.Read more
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For $180 the Core i3-8350K is nearly a rebadged Core i5-7600K: both are 14nm quad-cores operating at ~4GHz, but the 8350K is 25% cheaper. Meanwhile, the Core...Read more
Intel's Core i3-8100 comes with four cores at a low price point. But can it fend off AMD's multiplier-unlocked Ryzen competition?Read more
We take a look at the ultra-low cost Intel Core i3-8100 in our benchmarks and review. We see how this CPU stacks up to more costly server processors and see whether it is worth saving a few dollars with this intriguing solutionRead more
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Page 2 - Intel Core i5-2500K Architecture; Test SystemRead more
Without doubt the new range of Intel CPUs are incredible - we show you why.Read more
This latest mid-range processor is a huge leap forwardsRead more
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General

Processor socketAM4LGA 1151LGA 1155LGA 1151
Component forPCPC
N/A
PC
Operating modes64-bit64-bit64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.6 GHz3.6 GHz3.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Max turbo speed4.0 GHz
N/A
3.7 GHz4.0 GHz
Number of cores4446
Number of threads4446
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W65.0 W95.0 W65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus type
N/A
DMI3DMIDMI3
Idle states
N/A
yesyesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesyesyesyes
TypeAMD Radeon Vega 8Intel UHD Graphics 630Intel HD Graphics 2000Intel UHD Graphics 630
On-board graphics adapter base frequency1250.0 MHz350.0 MHz850.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
12.0
N/A
12.0

Memory

Cache4 MB6 MB6 MB9 MB
Cache typeL3Smart CacheL3Smart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor2933.0 MHz2400.0 MHz
N/A
2666.0 MHz
Memory types supported by processorDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
N/A
DDR4 SDRAM
Memory channelsDualDual
N/A
Dual
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
N/A
64.0 GB32.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
N/A
37.5 GB/s21.0 GB/s41.6 GB/s

Features

Maximum number of PCI Express lanes8161616
Thermal monitoring technologies
N/A
yesyesyes
Supported instruction sets
N/A
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
AVX
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bit
N/A
yesyesyes
Scalability
N/A
1S
N/A
1S

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