AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i5-8600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Core i5-8600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly 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 5900HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 9 5900HS 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 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.