AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i5-9500

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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24
$ 149.00
$ 138.24 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
186% significantly better overall score
3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
54% significantly better gaming score
6425 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
271% significantly better multitasking score
3132 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
294% significantly better heavy workload score
3003 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
325% significantly higher Blender score
95.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4834 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1444 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4973 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1468 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

3.4 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

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

66th of 1,089
441st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i5-9500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-9500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a 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 5950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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