10 specifications

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

On paper, the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H has more cores (8 against 6), and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H carries more L3 cache. Specifications describe what each chip is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 4 with a higher side

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

AMD · Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne, Zen 3) · Laptop

Full specifications

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

AMD · Ryzen 4000 (Renoir, Zen 2) · Laptop

Full specifications

Cores and clocks

Cores

Threads

Base clock

3.3 GHz

2.9 GHz

Boost clock

4.2 GHz

Cache and power

L3 cache

16 MB

8 MB

TDP

35 to 54 W

Platform

Socket

FP6

Process

7 nm

Integrated graphics

AMD Radeon Graphics (7 CU)

Launched

2021-01-12

2020-03-16

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

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Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a processor behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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