amd ryzen 9 5950x vs intel core i7 9700k

VS

We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Desktop) 16-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

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 9 5950X and Intel Core i7 9700K
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 8 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 5950X – 95 vs 105 Watt

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1619
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
26164
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3504
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
46616
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1837
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
18586

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5950x and core i7 9700k

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X Intel Core i7 9700K
Cores 16 8
Threads 32 8
Base Frequency 3.4 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.9 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 5950X 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 5950X 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 5950X 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
TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i7 9700K
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page Intel Core i7 9700K official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 9700K or AMD Ryzen 9 5950X?