amd ryzen 7 5800x vs intel core i5 9600k

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We compared two CPUs Intel Core i5 9600K (Desktop) 6-cores against AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (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 Intel Core i5 9600K and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Advantages of Intel Core i5 9600K
  • Newer released 2018 years later
  • Consumes up to 10% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X – 95 vs 105 Watt
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Around 9.6 GB/s (19%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 23 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.7 GHz vs 4.6 GHz)
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1608
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
15427
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3509
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
28355
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1628
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
10656

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i5 9600k and ryzen 7 5800x

General

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Vendor Intel AMD
Released October 8 2018 October 8 2020
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Coffee Lake-R Vermeer
Socket FCLGA1151 AM4
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630 -

Performance

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Cores 6 8
Threads 6 16
Base Frequency 3.7 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.6 GHz 4.7 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 9 MB (shared) 32 MB
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Power

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Fabrication process 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 W 105 W
Max. temperature 100°C °C

Memory support

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Memory types DDR4-2666 DDR4-3200
Memory Size 128 GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 41.6 GB/s 51.196 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 -
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1.15 MHz MHz
Shading Units 192
TMUs 24
ROPs 3
TGP 15 W W
iGPU FLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i5 9600K AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Official site Intel Core i5 9600K official page AMD Ryzen 7 5800X official page
PCI Express Version 3 4
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X or Intel Core i5 9600K?