amd ryzen 9 5900x vs intel core i7 9700k
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (Desktop) 12-cores against Intel Core i7 9700K (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
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- Newer released 2 years later
- Has 4 more physical cores
- Around 9.6 GB/s (19%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
- Has 52 MB larger L3 cache size
- Newer PCI Express version – 4
- More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i7 9700K
- Newer released 2018 years later
- Consumes up to 10% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X – 95 vs 105 Watt
- 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.8 GHz)
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | October 8 2020 | October 8 2018 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Vermeer | Coffee Lake-R |
| Socket | AM4 | FCLGA1151 |
| Integrated GPU | - | Intel UHD Graphics 630 |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Cores | 12 | 8 |
| Threads | 24 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 3.7 GHz | 3.6 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.8 GHz | 4.9 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 256K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 64 MB | 12 MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | Yes | Yes |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 105 W | 95 W |
| Max. temperature | °C | 100°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Memory types | DDR4-3200 | DDR4 |
| Memory Size | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 51.196 GB/s | 41.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Integrated Graphics | - | Intel UHD Graphics 630 |
| GPU Base Clock | MHz | 350 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 1.2 MHz |
| Shading Units | 192 | |
| TMUs | 24 | |
| ROPs | 3 | |
| TGP | W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Intel Core i7 9700K | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X official page | Intel Core i7 9700K official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4 | 3 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 16 |