Intel Core i9-11900KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 439.00

$ 212.99

$ 226.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8335 points

12% slightly better overall score

7399 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10716 points

19% slightly better gaming score

8984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7549 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

6877 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7340 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

6735 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8401 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6914 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.76 points

207.23 points

0.23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10199 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

9632 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2260 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2079 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9980 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9706 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2147 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 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

25% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

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

133rd of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900KF vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900KF is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i9-11900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.