Intel Core i9-11900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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
$ 177.00
$ 152.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8228 points
8583 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10552 points
11637 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7484 points
7604 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7301 points
7365 points
0.88% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11422 points
63% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6996 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

166.69 points
208.44 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9643 points
12562 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2228 points
2799 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9503 points
12876 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2234 points
2889 points
29% 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
4.70 GHz
88% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.3 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 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
121st 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
2022 September

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 7600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X is faster than the Core i9-11900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-11900F has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900F. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its 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 7600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900F. The Ryzen 5 7600X 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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