AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 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

4283 points
55% significantly better overall score
2754 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6364 points
24% slightly better gaming score
5105 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3616 points
72% significantly better multitasking score
2098 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3464 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score
2013 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.75 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
55.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3989 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1368 points
1400 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4938 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4043 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1356 points
1429 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.5 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
506% significantly lower TDP
91 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 1,089
578th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 4700U vs Core i5-6600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 4700U performs better than the Core i5-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4700U has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 7 4700U also has slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 7 4700U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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