Intel Core i5-2500K vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel Core 4 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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$ 133.55

$ 61.75 significantly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

8673 points

273% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

12393 points

189% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

7498 points

322% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

7245 points

325% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

7587 points

176% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

233.29 points

575% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

14957 points

683% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

3338 points

413% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.9 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5.4 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500K vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Core i5-2500K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.