Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i9-9900K benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Ryzen 5 2600X in overall performance. 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 i9-9900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 2600X and Core i9-9900K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K 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 2600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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