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

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-9700K benchmarks

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700K. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-9700K. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G.

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.