AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-9700K

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 90.18 significantly less expensive

$ 199.43

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

5644 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

8019 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

4848 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

4655 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points

5869 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

133.80 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

7073 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

1627 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

7273 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

1702 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

4.9 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 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

397th of 1,089

282nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i7-9700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. Both the Ryzen 5 2600X and Core i7-9700K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.