AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-4590S

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.40
$ 140.55 significantly less expensive
$ 198.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
107% significantly better overall score
2162 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
50% significantly better gaming score
4006 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
142% significantly better multitasking score
1647 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
145% significantly better heavy workload score
1580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
120% significantly higher Blender score
45.67 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2794 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1049 points
0.10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2984 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1094 points
0.83% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
692nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-4590S specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Core i5-4590S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590S in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4590S that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590S. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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