AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N Series 4 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

6410 points

900% significantly better overall score

641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

599% significantly better gaming score

1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

1093% significantly better multitasking score

475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

1108% significantly better heavy workload score

454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

1768% significantly higher Blender score

8.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

1198% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

658 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

686% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

260 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

1110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

716 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

675% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

236% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

6 W

983% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

233% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

1500% significantly more supported memory

8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Pentium N4200 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 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 N4200 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium N4200. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.