AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 441.35 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

14398 points

175% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

13255 points

84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

14804 points

221% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

14984 points

236% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

14388 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

537.64 points

337% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

19647 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

2926 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.20 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.7 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1024 KiB

166% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

16 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

128 MiB

1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 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 Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600G. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.