AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-4790S

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-4790S benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Core i7-4790S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790S in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790S. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790S. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790S. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790S. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.