Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 350.22

$ 212.99

$ 137.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points

7399 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points

8984 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points

6877 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points

6735 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7038 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6914 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

207.23 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12397 points

13184 points

6% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7957 points

9632 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points

2079 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

9706 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

2147 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% 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

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 7 5700X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more 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.