AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 104.35 significantly less expensive

$ 339.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

6549 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

7888 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

6111 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

5988 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

6209 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

185.59 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

8236 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

1703 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

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

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

61% significantly lower TDP

105 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

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

218th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2019 July

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 7 3800X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X 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 Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores with 8 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 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 3800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600G. The Ryzen 7 3800X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.