AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.64
$ 6728.36 significantly less expensive
$ 6964.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points
4% slightly better overall score
5000 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
47% significantly better gaming score
4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
5053 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
5066 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

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

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points
6391 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
958 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
84% significantly higher clock speed
2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

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

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
3.5 MiB
16% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
35 MiB
337% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089
348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600G. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 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.

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