AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs AMD FX-9590

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD FX-9590
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
4700 MHz / Cores: 8 / Jul 2013
AMD FX-9590

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

195 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD FX-9590.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-9590

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
SSE4a
CLMUL
CVT16
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsAMD Piledriver
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRenoirvsVishera
Release DateJan 2020vsJul 2013

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
Cores6vs8
Threads12vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 6vsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs384 KB
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs8192 KB
L3 Cache11MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackagevsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs315mm²
Process7 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UAMD FX-9590
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs4700 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvs5000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.912 V
TDP25 Wvs220 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    4480 points
  • AMD FX-9590
    3050 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    17216 points
  • AMD FX-9590
    18807 points

Points - higher is better