AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 145.00

$ 90.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

4% slightly better overall score

5020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

5% slightly better gaming score

6843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

5545 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

141.41 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% 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

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.