AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i3-8000

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
Intel Core i3-8000
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2018
Intel Core i3-8000

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 i3-8000

None

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
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
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Coffelake
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR4
CodenameRenoirvsCoffee Lake
Release DateJan 2020vsSep 2018

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 6vsUHD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache11MB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case TempN/Avs72°C
PackagevsFC-LGA1151
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Core i3-8000
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsvariable
TDP25 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    4480 points
  • Intel Core i3-8000
    4320 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    17216 points
  • Intel Core i3-8000
    17280 points

Points - higher is better