AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i9-9900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.