AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i9-11900KF

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i9-11900KF specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Core i9-11900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11900KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-11900KF CPU because of its 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 5950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900KF. 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.