AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i9-9900

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.99
$ 234.49 significantly less expensive
$ 470.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points
6105 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points
7952 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points
5494 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points
5338 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points
9955 points
121% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points
148.10 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points
7103 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points
1598 points
42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points
7287 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
1617 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089
246th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Core i9-9900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900. The Core i9-9900 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 i9-9900. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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