AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-9700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i7-9700F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads than the Core i7-9700F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has significantly 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.