AMD Ryzen 5 4600U: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started AMD Ryzen 5 4600U sales 6 January 2020. This is Renoir (Zen 2) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 7 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP6 processor with a TDP of 25 Watt. It supports DDR4-4266 memory.
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General info
Of Ryzen 5 4600U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance rating | 519 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) | |
| Architecture codename | Renoir (Zen 2) (2020−2021) | |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (2 years ago) | |
| Price now | $519 | of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 6 (Hexa-Core) | |
| Threads | 12 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.1 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | of 5.5 (Core i9-12900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128K (per core) | of 1536 (EPYC Embedded 3401) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 12288 (Core 2 Quad Q9550) |
| L3 cache | 11 MB (shared) | of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | of 5 (Apple M1) |
| Die size | 156 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 9800 Million | of 57000 (Apple M1 Max) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 4600U compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FP6 | |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4600U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4600U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-4266 | of 4800 (Ryzen 9 6980HX) |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 42.129 GB/s | of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| ECC memory support | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 4600U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 4600U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
- GeekBench 5 Single-Core
- GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
- Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
- Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
Benchmark coverage: 37%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
Benchmark coverage: 37%
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core (sometimes called Multi-Thread) is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
Game benchmarks
Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 5 4600U performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.
Intel equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 5 4600U by Intel is Core i7-1255U, which is slower by 1% and lower by 9 positions in our rating.
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