amd ryzen 5 5600g vs intel core i9 9900k

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (Desktop) 6-cores against Intel Core i9 9900K (Desktop) 8-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and Intel Core i9 9900K
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Consumes up to 32% less energy than the Intel Core i9 9900K – 65 vs 95 Watt
  • Around 9.6 GB/s (19%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i9 9900K
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 12% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1499
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
12531
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
19894
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1499
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
8511

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5600g and core i9 9900k

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Vendor AMD Intel
Released April 13 2021 October 8 2018
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne Coffee Lake-R
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 630

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Cores 6 8
Threads 12 16
Base Frequency 3.9 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.4 GHz 5 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB 16 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 W 95 W
Max. temperature 95°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4
Memory Size GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 41.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.2 MHz
Shading Units 448 192
TMUs 28 24
ROPs 7 3
TGP 0 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Intel Core i9 9900K
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5600G official page Intel Core i9 9900K official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 5 5600G?