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Intel Core i5 11400H vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

40 out of 100
Intel Core i5 11400H
VS
37 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Intel Core i5 11400H
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

We compared two 6-core laptop CPUs: the 2.2-2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 11400H against the 3.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 4600H. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 4600H and 11400H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 11400H
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 32% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1967 vs 1492 points
  • Newer - released 1 year and 4 months later
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
  • More powerful Radeon Vega 6 integrated graphics: 1.2 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers
  • Around 17.07 GB/s (33%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i5 11400H
vs
Ryzen 5 4600H

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i5 11400H +32%
1967
Ryzen 5 4600H
1492
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i5 11400H +26%
6967
Ryzen 5 4600H
5529
File compression 435.2 MB/sec 389.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 54.7 Klines/sec 44.8 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 119.7 pages/sec 102.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 193.7 Mpixels/sec 161 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 199.7 pages/sec 131.6 pages/sec
Background blur 38.9 images/sec 30.7 images/sec
Photo processing 51.2 images/sec 42.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.1 Mpixels/sec 11 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 507 & 746 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i5 11400H +22%
2949
Ryzen 5 4600H
2411
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i5 11400H +7%
15125
Ryzen 5 4600H
14115
Integer math 52.8 GOps/sec 45.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 31.7 GOps/sec 26.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 47M Primes/sec 28M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 22.3M Strings/sec 21.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.1 GBytes/sec 12 GBytes/sec
Data compression 186.9 MBytes/sec 200 MBytes/sec
Physics 673 Frames/sec 627 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 12.7B Matrices/sec 12.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 7444 & 3806 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i5 11400H +3%
108.96
Ryzen 5 4600H
106.24

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 10.7 PPW 9.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 154.8 PPW 102.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 336.1 PPW 261.4 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.42 PPW 1.97 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 11400H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-29 (Omkar)Cinebench 202482 / 439
πŸ“˜ 2025-09-17 (HNAT)Cinebench 202484 / 513
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-06 (George)Geekbench 6 CPU2082 / 8223
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-11 (Shen)Cinebench 202483 / 482
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AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-25 (UnknownUser)Cinebench 202465 / 495
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-25 (Ocelot)Cinebench 202469 / 520
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 11400H and AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released May 11, 2021 January 6, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Tiger Lake Zen 2 (Renoir)
Model number i5-11400H -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics for 11th Gen (16 EU) Radeon Vega 6
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i5 11500H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#168th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 6
P-Threads 12 12
Base Frequency (P) 2.2-2.7 GHz 3.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 6 6
Total Threads 12 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 22-27x 30x
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s -
L1 Cache 96K (per core) 32K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1787 FP6
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen (16 EU) Radeon Vega 6
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1450 MHz 1500 MHz
Shading Units 128 384
TMUs 8 24
ROPs 4 8
Execution Units 16 6
TGP 6-15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i5 11400H
0.4 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 4600H +200%
1.2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 6 compared to UHD Graphics (16 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s 68.27 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 11400H official page AMD Ryzen 5 4600H official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 16

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Comments

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