AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen 5 4600G
We compared two 6-core desktop CPUs: the 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5500 against the 3.7 GHz Ryzen 5 4600G. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of electricity consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500
- Newer - released 1-year and 8-months later
- Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size
- Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- 20% faster in a single-core Geekbench v5 test - 1433 vs 1190 points
- Around 3.97 GB/s (9%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 4600G
- Includes an integrated GPU Radeon Vega 7
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
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Specifications
General
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | March 15, 2022 | July 21, 2020 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 3 (Cezanne) | Zen 2 (Renoir) |
| Integrated GPU | No | Radeon Vega 7 |
CPU
| P-Cores | 6 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 12 | 12 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.6 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.2 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
| Total Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 36x | 37x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 96K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 8MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | Yes | Yes |
Package
| Transistors | - | 4.9 billions |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 7 nm |
| Socket | AM4 | AM4 |
| TDP | 65 W | 45-65 W (configurable) |
| Peak temperature | 90°C | 95°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | - | Radeon Vega 7 |
| GPU Base Clock | - | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | - | 1900 MHz |
| Shading Units | - | 448 |
| TMUs | - | 28 |
| ROPs | - | 7 |
| TGP | - | 10-45 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | DDR4-3200 | DDR4-3200 |
| Memory Size | 128 GB | 64 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 47.68 GB/s | 43.71 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 5500 official page | AMD Ryzen 5 4600G official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 24 | 12 |
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