AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-4590

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

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i5-4590 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4590. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-4590. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590. The Core i5-4590 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.