Intel Core i5-11400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 150.09

$ 45.21 significantly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5669 points

8673 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8320 points

12393 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4844 points

7498 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

7245 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5719 points

7587 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.47 points

233.29 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7590 points

14957 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1979 points

3338 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11400F vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Core i5-11400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400F in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.