AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Pentium G4600

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Pentium G4600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4600 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Ryzen 5 3500U also has slightly 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 Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.