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 Newegg.com, or SRP pricing, as on October 8, 2019.
These scores simply divide the Cinebench R20 score by the dollar price or SRP. The Ryzens are top because they offer excellent performance and keen pricing.
The Ryzen 5 3400G offers mid-pack performance. It's cheap enough and still accommodates eight threads. The score is actually quite good considering AMD has to devote additional transistor budget for the Radeon GPU, which other Ryzens don't.
This graph divides the same Cinebench result with the system-wide power consumption we observe during evaluation.
Again, compared to other Ryzens, this chip is hampered by having onboard graphics. Still, 3400G is comfortably better than Core i3-8100.
This metric takes 18.92 as the ceiling for Bang4Buck, and 35.06 for Bang4Watt, and combines them into a weighted score where a maximum of 2 is possible.
Solid numbers here, too, meaning the Ryzen 5 3400G is a well-rounded budget chip.