AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-9800X

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-9800X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9800X performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9800X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Core i7-9800X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.