Intel Core i7-4900MQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 200.00
$ 149.48
$ 50.52 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points
6416 points
178% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3862 points
8665 points
124% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1859 points
5694 points
206% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1784 points
5516 points
209% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.97 points
139.36 points
153% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3402 points
7974 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1123 points
2039 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.80 GHz
4.59 GHz
63% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.6 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W
38% slightly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

659th of 1,089
225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4900MQ vs Ryzen 5 5600GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600GT beats the Core i7-4900MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4900MQ. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4900MQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4900MQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4900MQ CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600GT CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4900MQ. The Ryzen 5 5600GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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