AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-9500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 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

$ 97.99
$ 51.01 significantly less expensive
$ 149.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
10% slightly better overall score
3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points
6425 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
3132 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
3003 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
95.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4834 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points
1444 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points
4973 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
1468 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089
441st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5-9500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. The Core i5-9500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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