Intel Core i9-9900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 470.48
$ 149.48
$ 321.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6105 points
6416 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points
8665 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points
5694 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points
5516 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9955 points
79% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5539 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
139.36 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7287 points
7974 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
2039 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
4.59 GHz
48% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 1,089
225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-9900 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600GT performs better than the Core i9-9900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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