AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 212.99
$ 1176.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1389.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7399 points
7509 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8984 points
9220 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6877 points
6930 points
0.77% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6735 points
6769 points
0.50% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6914 points
7296 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
173.21 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9632 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8419 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2079 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1690 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9706 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8569 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1789 points

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

3.40 GHz
4.01 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
95% significantly lower TDP
127 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
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

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 1,089
167th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2019 November

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 5700X vs Core i9-9900KS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KS beats the Ryzen 7 5700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X 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 Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KS 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 5700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KS. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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