Intel Core i9-11900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

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Price

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$ 559.99
$ 321.08
$ 238.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8281 points
10175 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points
23% slightly better gaming score
8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points
10760 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points
11072 points
52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8414 points
11130 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points
367.23 points
73% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
105 W
19% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
1024 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 1,091
85th of 1,091

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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