AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-9700KF

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 219.80
$ 9.20 slightly less expensive
$ 229.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
38% slightly better overall score
5685 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
17% slightly better gaming score
8058 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
50% significantly better multitasking score
4882 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score
4678 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5875 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
123.75 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6872 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1584 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7138 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1689 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
95 W
10% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
275th 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 February

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

Yes
No

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

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i7-9700KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700KF in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700KF outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly 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 i7-9700KF. 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.

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