AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i7-7820X

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i7-7820X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820X beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-7820X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.