AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Pentium G4520

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Pentium G4520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Pentium G4520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4520 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 Pentium G4520. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4520. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4520. The Pentium G4520 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a slightly 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 5 5600G has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4520. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.