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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.64

$ 229.00

$ 6.64 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

5685 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

8058 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

4882 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

4678 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

5875 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

123.75 points

0.71% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

7138 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

1689 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.9 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

275th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i7-9700KF specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700KF 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 i7-9700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700KF 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 i7-9700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF 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.