AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 9 4900HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Ryzen 9 4900HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 4900HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a 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 9 4900HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS.

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.