AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i7-11700

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i7-11700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700 beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700 CPU because of its 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 9 5900 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. The Ryzen 9 5900 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 9 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.