Intel Core i5-9600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Price

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$ 159.00

$ 18.00 slightly less expensive

$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4450 points

8583 points

92% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7080 points

11637 points

64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3627 points

7604 points

109% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3488 points

7365 points

111% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points

6996 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.07 points

208.44 points

121% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5629 points

12562 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points

2799 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6212 points

12876 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points

2889 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.70 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.3 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

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

6 MiB

300% 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

394th of 1,089

121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2022 September

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 7600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X is faster than the Core i5-9600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9600K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600K. The Ryzen 5 7600X 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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.