Pentium Dual T3400 vs Ryzen 5 1600

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking946not rated
Place by popularity44not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.48no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5Intel Pentium Dual Core
Power efficiency11.25no data
Architecture codenameZen 2 (2017−2020)Merom (2006−2008)
Release date16 March 2017 (7 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$219no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads122
Base clock speed3.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz2.16 GHz
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s667 MHz
Multiplier32no data
L1 cache576 KBno data
L2 cache3 MB1 MB
L3 cache16 MB (shared)no data
Chip lithography14 nm65 nm
Die size213 mm2143 mm2
Number of transistors4800 Million291 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplier+-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketAM4PPGA478
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTno data
AES-NI+-
AVX+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth42.671 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes20no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 5 1600 12278
+1780%
Pentium Dual T3400 653

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 5 1600 4538
+124%
Pentium Dual T3400 2026

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 5 1600 25970
+580%
Pentium Dual T3400 3817

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 5 1600 8244
+363%
Pentium Dual T3400 1779

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Ryzen 5 1600 6.85
+462%
Pentium Dual T3400 38.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 March 2017 1 October 2008
Physical cores 6 2
Threads 12 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt

Ryzen 5 1600 has an age advantage of 8 years, 200% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

Pentium Dual T3400, on the other hand, has 85.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 1600 and Pentium Dual Core T3400. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Ryzen 5 1600 is a desktop processor while Pentium Dual Core T3400 is a notebook one.


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