Intel Core i9-11900K 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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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 559.99

$ 190.07

$ 369.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8281 points

2% slightly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points

10893 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8414 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15519 points

21% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10589 points

11709 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2288 points

2649 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11108 points

12203 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2402 points

2751 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.80 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

136th 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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 5 7600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.