Ryzen 5 4600U: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 4600U provides acceptable benchmark performance at 8.48% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 5 4600U sales 6 January 2020. This is a Renoir-U (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 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
Primary details
Ryzen 5 4600U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 901 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) | |
| Power efficiency | 53.50 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021) | |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Multiplier | 21 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 156 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 9,800 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 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 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
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 | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| FMA | + | |
| 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 | |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 68.27 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 4600U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
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.
Combined synthetic benchmark 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
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.
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.
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.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
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.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
Blender(-)
Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core
7-Zip Single
7-Zip
WebXPRT 3
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 4600U is Core i7-1255U, which is faster by 1% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.
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