AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i5-9600KF

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i5-9600KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800U is faster 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 5800U 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600KF. The Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.