AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-7500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 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
$ 1857.36 significantly less expensive
$ 2093.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points
287% significantly better overall score
1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
168% significantly better gaming score
2679 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
358% significantly better multitasking score
1002 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
362% significantly better heavy workload score
962 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
424% significantly higher Blender score
23.43 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
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 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
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089
857th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-7500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U 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 i7-7500U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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