AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-9700

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-9700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600. Indeed, the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 2600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has slightly 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.