Ryzen 5 4600HS vs Pro A6-8500B
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 4600HS outperforms Pro A6-8500B by a whopping 796% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2720 | 1017 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Carrizo | AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) |
| Power efficiency | 2.56 | 9.84 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Manufacturer | no data | TSMC |
| Architecture codename | Carrizo (2015−2018) | Renoir-HS (Zen 2) (2020) |
| Release date | 3 June 2015 (10 years ago) | 6 January 2020 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS 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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 6 (Hexa-Core) |
| Threads | 4 | 12 |
| Base clock speed | 1.6 GHz | 3 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3 GHz | 4 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 30 |
| L1 cache | no data | 64 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 1024 KB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | no data | 8 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 7 nm |
| Die size | no data | 156 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 105 °C |
| Number of transistors | 3100 Million | 9,800 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS 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 configuration | no data | 1 |
| Socket | FP4 | FP6 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | HSA 1.0 | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | FMA4 | - |
| AVX | AVX | + |
| FRTC | + | - |
| FreeSync | + | - |
| TrueAudio | + | - |
| PowerNow | + | - |
| PowerGating | + | - |
| Out-of-band client management | + | - |
| VirusProtect | + | - |
| RAID | + | - |
| HSA | + | - |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
| IOMMU 2.0 | + | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3/DDR3L-1600 | DDR4-4266 |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | 4 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 68.27 GB/s |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R5 Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz) |
| iGPU core count | 4 | no data |
| จำนวนพาธไลน์ | 256 | no data |
| Enduro | + | - |
| Switchable graphics | + | - |
| UVD | + | - |
| VCE | + | - |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS integrated GPUs.
| DisplayPort | + | - |
| HDMI | + | - |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | DirectX® 12 | no data |
| Vulkan | + | - |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pro A6-8500B and Ryzen 5 4600HS.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.91 | 8.15 |
| Recency | 3 June 2015 | 6 January 2020 |
| Physical cores | 2 | 6 |
| Threads | 4 | 12 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
Pro A6-8500B has 133.3% lower power consumption.
Ryzen 5 4600HS, on the other hand, has a 795.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Ryzen 5 4600HS is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Pro A6-8500B in performance tests.
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