Intel Core i9-9900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Core i9-9900KF vs Ryzen 5 4500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900KF has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4500. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KF has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-9900KF and Ryzen 5 4500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KF 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 4500 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500.

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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.