AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i5-8600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-8600

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 164.99

$ 70.65 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

28% slightly better overall score

4056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

9% slightly better gaming score

6549 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

3280 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

3148 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

85.30 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5012 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1461 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% 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

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

322nd of 1,089

431st of 1,089

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i5-8600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i5-8600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8600. Despite this, the Core i5-8600 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 i5-8600. Despite this, the Core i5-8600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.