Intel Core i9-9900KS vs AMD Ryzen 7 170

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7509 points
7802 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9220 points
9529 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6930 points
7219 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6769 points
7047 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

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
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

178th of 1,127
166th of 1,127

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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