AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Processor (12C/24T, 70MB Cache, up to 4.8 GHz Max Boost)

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Finally, here’s how these two 2022 platforms fare in this stress test against their predecessors from 2021, the Intel Core i9-11900H and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900H. As mentioned already, the 12th gen Intel platform offers a massive increase in performance over the 11th gen i9, while the difference between the Ryzen 6000 and 5000 chips is much smaller, within 5% or so. While the Prime95 stress test isn't really indicative of what you'll see during regular use, we recorded much higher power draw across the board in all of the applications outlined above. That results in the eight-core11900K consuming not only more power than the previous-gen ten-core 10900K, which was already a power-hungry chip, but it also consumes far more than the competing Ryzen 9 5900X. Like with Alder Lake, Raptor Lake uses a mix of both E-cores and P-cores, these each specialises in different things. P-cores are geared towards power and performance, offering sheer speed, while E-cores are energy efficient. The next batch of work-related loads showcases the difference between the two in creative activities. Turbo modeBefore I joined the tech-journalism ranks, I wrote on topics as diverse as Borneo's rain forests, Middle Eastern airlines, and Big Data's role in presidential elections. A graduate of Middlebury College, I also have a master's degree in journalism and French Studies from New York University. Given its new hybrid architecture with two types of cores, Intel's core counts aren't directly comparable to AMD's due to their different capabilities. Our performance results will dictate the value of the overall designs. Gaming Benchmarks and Performance: Intel Core i9-13900K vs Ryzen 9 7950X At single-threaded workloads, the Intel Core i9-13900K is in the lead. With very minor differences in threaded work depending on the workload, it effectively ties the Ryzen 9 7950X in multi-threaded workloads. However, AMD’s Ryzen 7000 adds hardware acceleration to speed AVX-512 workloads, giving it a real advantage over Raptor Lake in a growing number of heavily threaded activities. As a result, this section is tied. I've appeared on CBS News, in USA Today, and at many other outlets to offer analysis on breaking technology news.

While AMD does pip Intel at the highest level, for the less expensive CPUs in the Ryzen 9 and Intel i9 ranges, those from Intel tend to offer similar single-core performance for a slightly lower price, and often significantly better multi-core performance. Keep in mind, however, that if you’re building a gaming PC multi-core performance is less important. Ryzen 9 vs Intel i9 – CompatibilityThe Core i9-12900K is Intel's first truly innovative high-end desktop CPU in years, showing great potential in its performance/efficiency mixed-core design and support for DDR5 memory. Just expect a high initial cost of adoption—and, perhaps, some PC-gaming growing pains. Finally, there’s the Silent mode, where the AMD platform wins by a major margin, but it also runs at higher power than the Intel model (45W vs 30W). That’s most likely due to the difference in software settings at the times we’ve reviewed the two (we tested the Intel model earlier in the year). Nonetheless, the AMD platform would have an advantage over the Intel hardware anyway if both were to run at 45W of power. Again, about a 25 percent advantage for the Ryzen 9. When the software in question is maximizing the use of cores and threads, the Ryzen 9 generally will prevail. Finally, intel seems to have used the same core design to bin the different skus. Meaning all the chips have space for the igpu and avx512. For the lower skus, they fused off cores, and for the f skus, they fused off the igpu. Rather than having just one core design, especially one with space for an igpu, why didn’t Intel have an additional cypress cove core design without the igpu so that it could have added more cores? Many enthusiasts don’t need a chip with an igpu as they have a dedicated gpu. Ryzen 5000 chips don’t have an igpu and yet the 5900x and 5950x destroy intel. Not sure why they didn’t put the space they had to better use. When it comes to heat, this Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i9-11900K CPU benchmark comparison is pretty lopsided. Power consumption and heat go hand in hand, and Intel's Core i9-11900K consumes more power than any of the company's previous mainstream processors. In fact, we recorded a peak of 295W during an AVX-512 Prime95 test.