Intel Core i5-9600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

4450 points

11% slightly better overall score

4006 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7080 points

14% slightly better gaming score

6204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3627 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

3328 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3488 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

3195 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.07 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

79.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

394th of 1,089

435th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

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 i5-9600K vs Ryzen 5 7235HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7235HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7235HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600K. Despite this, the Core i5-9600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS.

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