AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2
Intel Socket 2011SERVER
3700 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2013
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

105 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 Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

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 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
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
TXT
Intel VT-x
Intel VT-d
AES-NI
EPT
ECC

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_IvyBridge
MarketMobilevsServer
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRenoirvsIvy Bridge-E
Release DateJan 2020vsSep 2013

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon RX Vega 6vsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache11MB (shared)vs10240 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsIntel Socket 2011
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvs160mm²
Process7 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 4600UIntel Xeon E5-1620 v2
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP25 Wvs130 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    4480 points
  • Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2
    3811 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
    17216 points
  • Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2
    18292 points

Points - higher is better