Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i5-1155G7

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points
125% significantly better overall score
2975 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points
61% significantly better gaming score
5094 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points
161% significantly better multitasking score
2375 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points
166% significantly better heavy workload score
2277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
228% significantly higher Blender score
53.40 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12397 points
114% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
5791 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4793 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
1719 points
0.94% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
28 W
239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089
541st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i9-9900K vs Core i5-1155G7 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Core i5-1155G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1155G7 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900K has significantly more cores than the Core i5-1155G7. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-1155G7. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1155G7. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1155G7. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1155G7 outputs less heat than Core i9-9900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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