Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 5 4500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Ryzen 5 4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-9900K and Ryzen 5 4500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500.

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.