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

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 9 5900XT specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900XT performs better than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900XT outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 9 5900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900K. The Ryzen 9 5900XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.