AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-4590T

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-4590T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600 is faster than the Core i5-4590T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4590T that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4590T. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4590T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-4590T. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.