AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i5-9500

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Core i5-9500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-9500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500. The Core i5-9500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 1800X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 7 1800X 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 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.