AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i5-9600K

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Core i5-9600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700X beats the Core i5-9600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 2700X and Core i5-9600K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9600K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a slightly 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 2700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600K. The Ryzen 7 2700X 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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.