AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i7-9700K benchmarks

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Core i7-9700K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 1600X and Core i7-9700K are identical in this regard. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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