AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

5130 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

6861 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4572 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

4437 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

122.31 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points

9762 points

50% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

5529 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

1405 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5586 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1401 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

77% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

334th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 7 4800U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 4800U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 4800U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly 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 7 4800U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U.

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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.