AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 99.99
$ 135.65 significantly less expensive
$ 235.64

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
5232 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
7191 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
4599 points
0.97% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
4451 points
0.82% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points
4871 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
122.88 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6106 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1578 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

336th of 1,089
322nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 4600G benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4600G performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4600G outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600X 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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