AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-8500

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Price

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$ 235.64
$ 179.99
$ 55.65 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5230 points
40% slightly better overall score
3727 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7178 points
18% slightly better gaming score
6054 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
52% significantly better multitasking score
3008 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4452 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score
2885 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3756 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
83.18 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4868 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1396 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

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
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 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
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,120
480th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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