AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-9900KF

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 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

$ 130.00
$ 269.00 significantly less expensive
$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
6827 points
64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
8465 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
6279 points
85% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
6130 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
7066 points
83% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
176.47 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
8008 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
1647 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
8172 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
1723 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% 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

4.1 GHz
5 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

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

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
204th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i9-9900KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9900KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Core i9-9900KF have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 3500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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