HEXUS Bang4Buck and Bang4Watt
The performance benchmarks on the previous pages tell part of the story, but it is always fun to add some Bang4Buck metrics into the mix. Do be aware that there are many methods of calculating such results - different benchmarks will skew the outcome, and prices can both fluctuate daily and vary wildly depending on region.
We've chosen to use the multi-threaded Cinebench R20 test as a basis for our results, and pricing was taken from PCPartpicker on April 19, 2019.
This graph shows the Cinebench score divided by the price. Nice and easy.
The Core i5-9400 falls to the bottom of this chart because it lacks the thread muscle to hurt AMD. What's more, the Ryzen 5 2600 is particularly cheap right now, available for just £145.
We have also changed methodology here. Rather than take the manufacturer-quoted TDPs, we have chosen to ascribe the 2D system load figure - what we actually see - as the power reading.
This graph therefore shows the Cinebench score divided by this figure, and there's near-identical performance because Intel's lower performance is almost compensated for by its more frugal power consumption.
We can also combine Bang4Buck and Bang4Watt for an overall weighted efficiency score. What this shows is that no processor is bad, but it's clearly hard to ignore the value-and-performance showing of the Ryzen 5 2600.