AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i5 9600KF

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 with 12 cores 3.7GHz and Intel Core i5 9600KF with 6 cores 3.7GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Integrated graphics card

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2666)

Larger memory bandwidth (83.2GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 9MB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +62%

2034

Intel Core i5 9600KF

1251

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +306%

29358

Intel Core i5 9600KF

7218

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +82%

2954

Intel Core i5 9600KF

1618

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +180%

17582

Intel Core i5 9600KF

6268

Blender

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +372%

496

Intel Core i5 9600KF

105

Geekbench 5 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +78%

2148

Intel Core i5 9600KF

1206

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +222%

17950

Intel Core i5 9600KF

5559

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +51%

4157

Intel Core i5 9600KF

2752

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +354%

48850

Intel Core i5 9600KF

10742

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

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Intel Core i5 9600KF

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2019

Amd

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Zen 4 (Raphael)

Core Architecture

Coffee Lake

-

Processor Number

i5-9600KF

AM5

Socket

LGA-1151

Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Package

13.1 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AM5

Socket

LGA-1151

65 W

Power Consumption

95 W

142 W

Max Turbo Power Consumption

-

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

CPU Performance

12

Performance Cores

6

24

Performance Core Threads

6

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.7 GHz

5.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.6 GHz

12

Total Core Count

6

24

Total Thread Count

6

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

37x

Multiplier

37x

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

9 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-2666

128 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

83.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

41.6 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

-

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

-

2200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

-

448

Shader Units

-

8

Texture Units

-

4

Raster Operation Units

-

2

Execution Units

-

15 W

Power Consumption

-

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Official Website

Intel Core i5 9600KF

5.0

PCIe Version

3.0

28

PCIe Lanes

16

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

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