Intel Core i9-11900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

$ 329.00
$ 190.07
$ 138.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8228 points
2% slightly better overall score
8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10552 points
10893 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7484 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7301 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11422 points
72% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6614 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

166.69 points
199.23 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9643 points
11709 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2228 points
2649 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9503 points
12203 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2234 points
2751 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.80 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed
5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 1,089
147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-11900F vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900F is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11900F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Ryzen 5 7600 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. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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