AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.40
$ 335.88 significantly less expensive
$ 394.28

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
24% slightly better overall score
3615 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
33% slightly better multitasking score
2998 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score
2875 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
71.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
5019 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1294 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
5204 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1395 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.3 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
473rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-9700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Core i7-9700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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