AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-9700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-9700

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 118.98 significantly less expensive

$ 338.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

51% significantly better overall score

5190 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

25% slightly better gaming score

7573 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

4403 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

70% significantly better heavy workload score

4217 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

5171 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

106.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6174 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1526 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6222 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1571 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

Identical

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

326th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-9700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-9700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.