AMD Ryzen 5 4600H vs Intel Core i5-8350U

Ryzen 5 4600H vs Core i5-8350U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600H beats the Core i5-8350U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4600H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8350U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8350U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8350U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4600H thanks to a 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 Ryzen 5 4600H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 5 4600H also has slightly 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 4600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.