AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-9600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 399.99
$ 159.00
$ 240.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
107% significantly better overall score
4450 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
5% slightly better gaming score
7080 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
171% significantly better multitasking score
3627 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
189% significantly better heavy workload score
3488 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
153% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
4254 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
295% significantly higher Blender score
94.07 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5629 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1529 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6212 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1679 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
433% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
95 W
10% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
611% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089
394th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2018 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 9 3950X vs Core i5-9600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3950X performs better than the Core i5-9600K. 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 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-9600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9600K outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600K. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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