AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-11400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-11400

Price

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$ 174.98

$ 139.99

$ 34.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

54 %

58 %

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

75 %

85 %

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

47 %

49 %

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

45 %

48 %

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.79

173.50

58% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

119th of 626

97th of 626

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2020

February 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i5-11400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11400 performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600G in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Core i5-11400 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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.