AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-7400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 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

$ 235.64
$ 59.00
$ 176.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points
133% significantly better overall score
2237 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
72% significantly better gaming score
4164 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
170% significantly better multitasking score
1701 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
172% significantly better heavy workload score
1632 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points
55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3132 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
183% significantly higher Blender score
43.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3282 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1193 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

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

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089
675th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i5-7400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4600G performs better than the Core i5-7400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7400. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7400. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7400. The Ryzen 5 4600G also has slightly 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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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