Intel Core i9-9900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6827 points

6% slightly better overall score

6405 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8465 points

9018 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6279 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6130 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

5403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

176.47 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8172 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7982 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points

2119 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

28 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900KF vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KF beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9900KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.