AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i9-9820X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9820X is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Core i9-9820X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9820X. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.