AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.99
$ 253.29 significantly less expensive
$ 394.28

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
69% significantly better overall score
3615 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
49% significantly better gaming score
5558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
81% significantly better multitasking score
2998 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
83% significantly better heavy workload score
2875 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
71.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5019 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1294 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5204 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1395 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
95% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
473rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-9700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Core i7-9700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Core i7-9700T has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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