AMD Ryzen vs Intel Core i5

It depends on what tasks the users are going to be doing on these workstations. I recently assisted a local university by renewing their park of workstations. And we stopped on Ryzen 5 Pro 2400 GE. They are very happy with the choice.

Most of what they do is web based. No streaming or anything like that. They will user MS Word.

If you do a Google search on "i5-8400 vs 2400ge" you'll see a number of sites with comparisons.  Some are simply based on the specs such as this one:
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/719/AMD_Ryzen_5_PRO_2400GE_(PRO)_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-8400.html

while others have benchmarks:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-2400GE-vs-Intel-Core-i5-8400/3266vs3097
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-8400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2400G/3939vsm433194

The i5 has 6 real cores vs. the AMD with 4 cores with 2 threads each.  The AMD has a faster base clock speed.

It looks as if the performance difference isn't that dramatic.  $4k may be better spent elsewhere.

What do they have for storage?  I'd look for NVMe PCIe SSDs over SATA SSDs.  The cost difference may be negligible and the performance difference could be very significant.

I don't think Lenovo ships anything with SATA SSDs.  It's all NVMe as far as I've seen over the last 1.5 years.

Intel Core i5 8400T 1.7 Ghz / 8GB / 256 GB SSD OPAL / UHD630 / ac / BT / DP / W10P64;2nd Gen AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE 3.2GHz / 8 GB / 256 GB OPAL / Vega11 / ac BT / DP / W10P64

The will run MS Office and use web based applications. User files will be store on the company file server via WAN.

I did forward more information concerning the specs. However, I believe Ryzen 5 Pro makes sense based upon how these computers will be used.

Thanks to everyone.