Intel Core i5-9600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.95
$ 74.99
$ 194.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4518 points
5931 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points
7969 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3673 points
5267 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3525 points
5102 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4297 points
5451 points
26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.50 points
141.88 points
60% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5456 points
7589 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1503 points
1833 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5909 points
7653 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points
1872 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 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
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

388th of 1,089
256th 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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-9600KF vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Core i5-9600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600KF in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 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 5500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600KF. The Ryzen 5 5500 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 i5-9600KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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