AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 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
$ 243.15 significantly less expensive
$ 478.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points
7550 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
8222 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
7324 points
59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
7249 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points
7406 points
52% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
202.00 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points
9481 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points
0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1574 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
Identical
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.5 GHz
7% 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

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
25 MiB
212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089
165th 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
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i9-10900X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900X performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Indeed, the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 4600G and Core i9-10900X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its 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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