Intel Core i5-9500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 240

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 200 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3906 points
0.21% slightly better overall score
3898 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6425 points
31% slightly better gaming score
4888 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3132 points
3569 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3003 points
3461 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

95.73 points
181.21 points
89% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
4.30 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
6 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,121
463rd of 1,121

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-9500 vs Ryzen 5 240 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 240. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 240 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 240 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 240 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. Also, the Ryzen 5 240 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 240 outputs less heat than Core i5-9500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 240 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 5 240 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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