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

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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 – Compatibility

Assuming you can find either of these chips at close to sane pricing, the Ryzen 9 5900X offers far more value for gamers and creatives alike, largely due to its solid blend of performance in gaming, single- and multi-threaded work. AMD also hasn't had to dial the power consumption up to the extreme, so you get a cooler chip that will ultimately result in a quieter system. In addition, other areas like motherboard and memory cost are where Ryzen 9 7000 series encounters its largest difficulties. High-end X670E motherboard prices have decreased over time, so they often only cost a little more than Z790 motherboards that offer DDR5. We should also mention that memory can impact these findings, especially on the AMD configurations. These test models are all using SR memory, and upgrading to lower-latency DR chips might impact the performance. However, upgrading to DR memory didn’t have a significant impact on any of the Legion 7 models, as explained in this review, and I haven’t tested the impact on the other two, so that’s a topic we should further look into in a future update. Gaming results

Once again, the Core i9 prevails on the single-core task but falls a bit behind on the multicore one (though by a bit less time, proportionally, than on Handbrake and Cinebench).

However, there will always be performance addicts willing to pay top dollar for the absolute best, and for those, the Core i9-13900K is the answer — at least for now. The Core i9-13900K is simply the fastest gaming processor that money can buy. However, AMD has its Ryzen 7000 X3D models coming soon, and Intel also has a 6 GHz Core i9-13900KS in the works, so it might be best to wait.For example, outright thread-punisher tests like Cinebench R23 or 7-Zip will simply max out every resource handed to them, Thread Director or not. This is why we see such similar results between the two whether they're run on Windows 10 or 11, because Thread Director can't be of much help when the only direction on the board is "Give 'er everything she's got."

Ryzen, Ryzen, Ryzen! With apologies to The Brady Bunch: For more than a few years now, everywhere you look, AMD has been dominating the content-creator market for desktop CPUs. Through multiple generations of the Zen architecture, starting in 2017, AMD has defined new limits of cores-for-the-money, revolutionizing the kind of desktop power available for media-minded applications. Professional creative users and prosumers alike couldn't be happier with the trend. The Ryzen 9 5900X ultimately wins on the strength of its better blend of gaming and application performance, not to mention that it comes with much lower power consumption that ultimately results in a cooler and quieter system. And that's despite it coming with four more cores than the 11900K. On Turbo, the top-performance profile, the Intel platform has a 20% advantage over the AMD hardware at peak power in the first run, which then stabilizes at around 15% sustained.Let’s switch to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. It is the chip to look at if you want the top-tier typical AMD performance. It is the member of team red with the most cores and can compete with Intel’s 13900K. This Team Red processor has a 5nm TSMC process, more cache, and an integrated GPU. AMD Ryzen 9 vs Intel Core i9: Features & Specs: The Core i9-13900K is faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X in gaming at both 1080p and 1440p resolutions by 15% and 11%, respectively. It also has an appreciable advantage when we take 99th percentile frame rate measurements into account. At the end of the day, the Core i9-13900K is simply the fastest gaming chip money can buy. The 10-core Intel Core i9-10900K, like five years of desktop processor releases before it, is based on a 14nm lithography process, now aged up to what's been dubbed here in 2020 a "14nm++" process. The company continues to use a monolithic die approach to its architecture, and although the 14nm process is more than five years old at this point, Intel's engineers have proven it to be a solid foundation for constant iteration and subtle improvement over time.