Intel Core i9-9900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

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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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 470.48

$ 155.73

$ 314.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6105 points

10% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points

8044 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9955 points

90% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points

159.49 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7287 points

9444 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

2354 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.55 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

Identical

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% 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

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 8000 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

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8500G beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.