AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i7-9700KF

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i7-9700KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Core i7-9700KF has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U.

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