AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i9-7900X

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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Intel Core i9-7900X

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 454.31 significantly less expensive

$ 689.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

7006 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

7653 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

6778 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

6719 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

6987 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

209.19 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

8832 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

14 MiB

75% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

193rd 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

2017 May

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 i9-7900X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7900X. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.