AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 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

$ 109.25
$ 39.75 significantly less expensive
$ 149.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
13% slightly better overall score
3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
6425 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
3132 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
3003 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
95.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4834 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
1444 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4973 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
1468 points
18% 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

4.25 GHz
4.4 GHz
3% 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

397th 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

2018 April
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 2600X vs Core i5-9500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600X is faster than the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 5 2600X also has significantly 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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