AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-2450M

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i5-2450M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i5-2450M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2450M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2450M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2450M. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2450M. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2450M outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.