Ryzen 5 4600G vs Athlon II M320

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated763
Place by popularitynot in top-10026
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlon IIAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data14.73
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Renoir (2020−2023)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)21 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads212
Base clock speedno data3.7 GHz
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz4.2 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
Multiplierno data37
L1 cache128 KB384 KB
L2 cache1 MB3 MB
L3 cacheno data8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data95 °C
Number of transistorsno data9800 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketSocket S1 (S1g3)AM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualizationno data
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
PowerNow+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4-3200
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G.

PCIe versionno data3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon II M320 749
Ryzen 5 4600G 16068
+2045%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon II M320 182
Ryzen 5 4600G 1581
+769%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon II M320 325
Ryzen 5 4600G 6124
+1784%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 21 July 2020
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 12
Chip lithography 45 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt

Athlon II M320 has 85.7% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 4600G, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, 200% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II M320 and Ryzen 5 4600G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon II M320 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 5 4600G is a desktop one.


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