Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 338.78

$ 212.99

$ 125.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points

7399 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

8984 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

6877 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

6735 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points

6914 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

207.23 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6174 points

9632 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1526 points

2079 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points

9706 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points

2147 points

36% slightly 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 GHz

3.40 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 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

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

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 i7-9700 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 5700X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 7 5700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.