Intel Core i7-9700KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 229.00

$ 135.32

$ 93.68 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5685 points

6267 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8058 points

8333 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4882 points

5604 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4678 points

5431 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5875 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5664 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

123.75 points

150.92 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6872 points

8330 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1584 points

1980 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7138 points

8600 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1689 points

2052 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

11% 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

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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

275th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700KF vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better than the Core i7-9700KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. Also, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700KF. The Ryzen 5 5600 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 i7-9700KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.