Intel Core i5-9600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 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
$ 145.00
$ 124.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4518 points
5020 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points
5% slightly better gaming score
6843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3673 points
4448 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3525 points
4307 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4297 points
5545 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.50 points
141.41 points
59% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
100% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
Identical
6

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
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 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
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2024 January

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 5500GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500GT is faster than the Core i5-9600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-9600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9600KF has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600KF. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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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