Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i5-4590S

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4590S

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 95.32 significantly less expensive

$ 198.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

5% slightly better overall score

2162 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

6% slightly better gaming score

4006 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1647 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points

45.67 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2794 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1049 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2984 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1094 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

692nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs Core i5-4590S comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4590S is faster than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590S. Despite this, the Core i5-4590S has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.