amd ryzen 5 4600h vs intel core i7 7700hq

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We compared two CPUs Intel Core i7 7700HQ (Laptop) 4-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (Laptop) 6-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Intel Core i7 7700HQ and AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Advantages of Intel Core i7 7700HQ
  • Newer released 2016 years later
  • Consumes up to 17% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H – 45 vs 54 Watt
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Around 4.6 GB/s (11%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 5 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.8 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
7985
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2465
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
14751
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
5717

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i7 7700hq and ryzen 5 4600h

General

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Vendor Intel AMD
Released January 3 2017 January 7 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Kaby Lake Renoir
Socket FCBGA1440 FP6
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 630 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Performance

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Cores 4 6
Threads 8 12
Base Frequency 2.8 GHz 3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.8 GHz 4 GHz
L1 Cache 256 KB 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 1 MB 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 6 MB 11 MB (shared)

Power

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Fabrication process 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W 54 W
Max. temperature 100°C 105°C

Memory support

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Memory types DDR3, DDR4 DDR4-4266
Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 37.5 GB/s 42.129 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Integrated Graphics Intel HD Graphics 630 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1.1 MHz MHz
Shading Units 192 384
TMUs 24 24
ROPs 3 8
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.44 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i7 7700HQ AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Official site Intel Core i7 7700HQ official page AMD Ryzen 5 4600H official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H or Intel Core i7 7700HQ?