Intel Core i5-9600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 269.95

$ 68.37

$ 201.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4518 points

5312 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points

7287 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3673 points

4672 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3525 points

4523 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4297 points

4824 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.50 points

124.29 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5909 points

6235 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1560 points

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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

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

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly 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

388th of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9600KF vs Ryzen 5 4500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500 is faster than the Core i5-9600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 4500 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4500. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i5-9600KF thanks to a significantly 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 4500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-9600KF has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500.

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