AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-6700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i7-6700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K 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 i7-6700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-6700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.