Intel Core i9-7900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Core i9-7900X vs Ryzen 5 5600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.