Intel Core i7-9700KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Core i7-9700KF vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Core i7-9700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i7-9700KF has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. According to our data, the Core i7-9700KF and Ryzen 5 5500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-9700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has slightly 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 i7-9700KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.