AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i5-9600KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 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

$ 149.99
$ 119.96 significantly less expensive
$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points
4% slightly better overall score
4518 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points
7209 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
3673 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
3525 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3899 points
4297 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
88.50 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points
5456 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points
1503 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
5909 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1634 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
166% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089
388th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i5-9600KF benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1700 performs better than the Core i5-9600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-9600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-9600KF that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9600KF 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 7 1700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600KF. The Ryzen 7 1700 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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