AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 269.00
$ 489.99 significantly less expensive
$ 758.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
17900 points
81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
16115 points
62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
18547 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
18824 points
91% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
18587 points
82% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
555.81 points
77% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
22613 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
3204 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
Identical
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
Identical
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.7 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
40 MiB
566% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
4th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core Ultra 9 285K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 285K beats the Ryzen 9 5900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 5900X and Core Ultra 9 285K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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