AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 67.00
$ 82.95 significantly less expensive
$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
107% significantly better overall score
2395 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
68% significantly better gaming score
3995 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
129% significantly better multitasking score
1928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
131% significantly better heavy workload score
1851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
173% significantly higher Blender score
48.93 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2555 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
914 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3174 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1063 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
47 W
38% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
644th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-4800MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i7-4800MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4800MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4800MQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4800MQ. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4800MQ. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4800MQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a slightly 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 5 3600 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4800MQ. The Ryzen 5 3600 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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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