AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX with 16 cores 2.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 4600U with 6 cores 2.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 4266)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (2.5GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U 's Advantages
Integrated graphics card
Lower TDP (25W vs 55W)
Score
General Parameters
Apr 2025
Release Date
Jan 2020
AMD
Manufacturer
AMD
Laptop
Type
Laptop
-
Instruction Set
x86-64
Dragon Range
Core Architecture
Zen 2
AMD Socket FL1
Socket
FP6
Radeon 610M
Integrated Graphics
Radeon Vega 6
Ryzen 9 (Zen 4 (Dragon Range))
Generation
-
Package
13.14 billions
Transistor Count
-
5 nm
Manufacturing Process
7 nm
55 W
Power Consumption
10-25 W
100°C
Peak Operating Temperature
105 °C
TSMC
Foundry
-
2x71 mm²
Die Size
-
6 nm
I/O Process Size
-
122 mm²
I/O Die Size
-
CPU Performance
-
Performance Cores
6
-
Performance Core Threads
12
2.5 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4 GHz
16
Total Core Count
6
32
Total Thread Count
12
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
24.0
Multiplier
21x
64 KB per core
L1 Cache
32 K per core
1 MB per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
64 MB shared
L3 Cache
8 MB shared
Yes
Unlocked Multiplier
No
1
SMP
-
Memory Parameters
DDR5-5200
Memory Types
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4-4266
-
Max Memory Size
32 GB
2
Max Memory Channels
2
-
Max Memory Bandwidth
68.27 GB/s
No
ECC Memory Support
Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
-
Integrated Graphics
true
-
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1500 MHz
-
Shader Units
384
-
Texture Units
24
-
Raster Operation Units
8
-
Power Consumption
15 W
