AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

4161 points
4375 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
7% slightly better gaming score
6163 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
3818 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
3690 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
115.74 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4719 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1329 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4714 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1350 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
71% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

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

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
403rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 4600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. The Ryzen 5 4600U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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