Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 350.22

$ 329.99

$ 20.23 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points

6994 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points

0.26% slightly better gaming score

8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points

6575 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points

6440 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7038 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

187.18 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

10106 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

1922 points

12% 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

0.67% slightly higher clock speed

3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

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

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2024 January

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 5700X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 5700X3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D also has significantly more 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.