AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i7-4790S

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
Intel Core i7-4790S
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / May 2014
Intel Core i7-4790S

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

40 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-4790S

None

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
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
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
vPro
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Haswell
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRenoirvsHaswell
Release DateJan 2020vsMay 2014

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 6vsIntel HD 4600

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache11MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case TempN/Avs71°C
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvs177mm²
Process7 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i7-4790S
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvs3900 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP25 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    4480 points
  • Intel Core i7-4790S
    4368 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    17216 points
  • Intel Core i7-4790S
    16665 points

Points - higher is better