Intel Core i5-8600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 120.99

$ 180.57 significantly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

11120 points

158% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6905 points

13778 points

99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3493 points

10239 points

193% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points

9995 points

198% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4121 points

9722 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.16 points

302.05 points

238% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5747 points

16965 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1581 points

3349 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5.5 GHz

27% slightly 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

32 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8600K vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9700X performs better than the Core i5-8600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8600K. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Core i5-8600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.