amd ryzen 9 5900hx vs amd ryzen 5 4600h

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (Laptop) 8-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 AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX and AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Consumes up to 17% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H – 45 vs 54 Watt
  • Has 5 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1498
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
12842
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3262
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
23199
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1528
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
8365

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5900hx and ryzen 5 4600h

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Vendor AMD AMD
Released January 7 2021 January 7 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne H Renoir
Socket FP6 FP6
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Cores 8 6
Threads 16 12
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz 3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.6 GHz 4 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB (shared) 11 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Fabrication process 7 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W 54 W
Max. temperature 105°C 105°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4-4266
Memory Size GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 42.129 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Shading Units 512 384
TMUs 32 24
ROPs 8 8
TGP 15 W 15 W

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX official page AMD Ryzen 5 4600H official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H or AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX?