AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-9800X

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

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Intel Core i7-9800X

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 533.24 significantly less expensive

$ 768.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

6761 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

8246 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

6264 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

6133 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

163.68 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

7552 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1400 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

206th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2018 November

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 i7-9800X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9800X beats the Ryzen 5 4600G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Also, the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.