Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 5 6600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600H 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 6600H. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.