AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
4528 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6163 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5692 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3818 points
4151 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
4054 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.74 points
131.79 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4719 points
5551 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1329 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1070 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4714 points
5573 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1350 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1100 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.4 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

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
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 1,089
386th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Ryzen 7 1700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700X beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600U. The Ryzen 7 1700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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