Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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
60% significantly better overall score
4185 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points
38% slightly better gaming score
5956 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points
70% significantly better multitasking score
3648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score
3528 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
73% significantly higher Blender score
101.12 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12397 points
36% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
9100 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5479 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1585 points

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

3.6 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

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

209th of 1,089
421st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 5 5625U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5625U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5625U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5625U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5625U. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5625U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5625U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900K. 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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