AMD Ryzen 5 4600H vs Intel Core i7-6700

Ryzen 5 4600H vs Core i7-6700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600H beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600H. A Ryzen 5 4600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 4600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 4600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.