AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Pentium G4600

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Pentium G4600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium G4600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4600. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a slightly 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 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.