AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i9-9880H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9880H 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 i9-9880H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9880H 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 i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H 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.