Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 350.22
$ 188.99
$ 161.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points
7857 points
16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points
10525 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points
6994 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points
6774 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7038 points
9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
197.05 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points
12599 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
2751 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
3.70 GHz
2% 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

95 W
65 W
46% 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
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 5 7500F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500F beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K 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 7500F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 5 7500F 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 7500F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 5 7500F also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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