Intel Core i5-9600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i5-9600 vs Ryzen 3 5425U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9600 beats the Ryzen 3 5425U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5425U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5425U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has more threads than the Core i5-9600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. Also, the Core i5-9600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 5425U outputs less heat than Core i5-9600 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 3 5425U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600. Despite this, the Core i5-9600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U.

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 i5-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.