Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 338.78

$ 145.00

$ 193.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points

3% slightly better overall score

5020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

10% slightly better gaming score

6843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

4448 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

4307 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points

5545 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

141.41 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2024 January

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 i7-9700 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-9700. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.