AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Ryzen 7 4800HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800HS 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 4800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 4800HS 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 4800HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.