AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i9 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
74% significantly better overall score
2473 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points
59% significantly better gaming score
3684 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points
80% significantly better multitasking score
2115 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
80% significantly better heavy workload score
2044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
85.61 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4580 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points
1270 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points
5219 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
1422 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
45 W
111% 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
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089
634th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i9-8950HK specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600X performs better than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. The Core i9-8950HK 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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