AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points
284% significantly better overall score
1361 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
164% significantly better gaming score
2723 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
354% significantly better multitasking score
1012 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
356% significantly better heavy workload score
975 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
274% significantly higher Blender score
32.79 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089
851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6498DU in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6498DU that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6498DU. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU. The Ryzen 5 4600G 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.

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