Intel Core i9-9900KS vs AMD EPYC 7571

Core i9-9900KS vs EPYC 7571 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 7571 beats the Core i9-9900KS in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 7571 has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Core i9-9900KS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KS has a significantly higher clock speed than the EPYC 7571. In terms of cache, the EPYC 7571 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KS. The EPYC 7571 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 i9-9900KS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.