AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-4460

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.00
$ 64.04
$ 204.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
383% significantly better overall score
2038 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
164% significantly better gaming score
3756 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
532% significantly better multitasking score
1556 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
557% significantly better heavy workload score
1494 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
274% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2725 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
664% significantly higher Blender score
41.05 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points
300% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2935 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1032 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
299% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2954 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1068 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
499% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
84 W
25% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
709th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-4460 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-4460 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-4460 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4460. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4460. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4460 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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