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

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i7-9700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600U beats the Core i7-9700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.