AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i9-9820X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9820X beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9820X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.