AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

6179 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6163 points

7639 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3818 points

5707 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

5585 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.74 points

160.71 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

4700% significantly more L1 cache

8 KiB

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

240th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Ryzen 9 5900HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600U. 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 9 5900HS 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 9 5900HS has a much higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600U. The Ryzen 9 5900HS 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.