AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4375 points

5130 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6163 points

7103 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3818 points

4499 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4352 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.74 points

126.15 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4719 points

6462 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1329 points

1549 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4714 points

6565 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1350 points

1621 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 1,089

335th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i7-8700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K 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 Ryzen 5 4600U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U.

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.