Intel Core i9-11900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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Price

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$ 329.00
$ 195.30
$ 133.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8228 points
8589 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10552 points
12212 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7484 points
0.54% slightly better multitasking score
7444 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7301 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
7194 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11422 points
50% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7587 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

166.69 points
233.29 points
39% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9503 points
14957 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2234 points
3338 points
49% significantly 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
3.9 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

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
33% slightly more L1 cache
480 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

141st of 1,092
121st of 1,092

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2024 August

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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