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AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i5-11600K

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

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The AMD Ryzen 9 79 00 is a high-end desktop processorfrom the Raphael series with 12 cores and hyperthreading (SMT), which means it can process up to 24 threads simultaneously. Launched in early 2023, the Ryzen 9 7900 is the fastest 12-core processor with 65 watts TDP.

The Ryzen 9 7900 clocks at 3.7 GHz base clock and reaches up to 5.4 GHz on one core in Turbo mode. This is also the difference to the higher clocked Ryzen 9 7900X.

At first glance, the internal structure of the processor has not changed fundamentally. The AMD Ryzen 9 7900 is still based on the chiplet design consisting of two CCD clusters, each containing a CCX with 8 cores. However, the manufacturing process has been scaled down to 5 nm, which ensures higher clock rates. There is also the IO die, which contains the memory controller and the iGPU, among other things. This is now manufactured in a 6 nm structure width.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900 can impress in games thanks to the significantly improved IPC.

Intel Core i5-11600K

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The Intel Core i5-11600K is a high-end desktop CPU based on the Rocket Lake architecture. The CPU offers 6 cores and 12 threads clocked at 3.9 - 4.9 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.0 only). Using all cores, the CPU can clock up to 4.6 GHz.  

The TDP is rated at 125 Watt (PL1, power limit sustained load) but the PL2 is set to around 250 Watt for short term boosts (up to 56 seconds). 

The Sunny Cove processor cores (known from the Ice Lake mobile CPUs) offer larger caches and an improved IPC (up to 19%). Furthermore, the chip also includes (partly) integrated WiFi 6E and Thunderbolt 4. The platform supports PCIe 4.0 and Intel DL Boost for AI acceleration.

Thanks to the faster core architecture, the 11600K can beat the old i5-10600K by around 20 percent. Therefore, the i5-11600K is a good mid range choice for gaming.

The faster Rocket Lake-S CPUs also integrate a new Intel UHD Graphics 750 that is based on the current Intel Xe architecture (e.g. mobile Tiger Lake) and offers 32 EUs. In the 11600K, the GPU is clocked from 350 - 1300 MHz.

The CPU is manufactured on the old 14nm process like the Comet Lake predecessors. The power consumption is not as high, as the Core i9-11900K, but can't come close to the power efficient Ryzen 5 5600X.

ModelAMD Ryzen 9 7900Intel Core i5-11600K
CodenameRaphael (Zen4)Rocket Lake
SeriesAMD Raphael (Zen 4, Ryzen 7000)Intel Rocket Lake
Series: Rocket Lake Rocket Lake
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D compare4.2 - 5.7 GHz16 / 32 cores128 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X compare4.7 - 5.6 GHz12 / 24 cores64 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 « 3.7 - 5.4 GHz12 / 24 cores64 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X compare4.5 - 5.4 GHz8 / 16 cores32 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 compare3.8 - 5.3 GHz8 / 16 cores32 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D compare4.2 - 5 GHz8 / 16 cores96 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X compare4.7 - 5.3 GHz6 / 12 cores32 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 compare3.8 - 5.1 GHz6 / 12 cores32 MB L3
Intel Core i9-11900K compare3.5 - 5.3 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-11700K compare3.6 - 5 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-11700 compare2.5 - 4.9 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i5-11600K « 3.9 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-11400F compare2.6 - 4.4 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-11400T compare1.3 - 3.7 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Clock3700 - 5400 MHz3900 - 4900 MHz
L1 Cache768 KB480 KB
L2 Cache12 MB3 MB
L3 Cache64 MB12 MB
Cores / Threads12 / 246 / 12
TDP65 Watt125 Watt
Transistors9.9 Million
Technology5 nm14 nm
Voltage0.650 - 1.475V V
Die Size262 mm2
max. Temp.95 °C100 °C
SocketAM5 (LGA 1718)LGA1200
FeaturesMMX(+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, x86-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512F, FMA3, SHA, Precision Boost 2DDR4-3200 RAM, PCIe 4, 8 GT/s bus, DL Boost, GNA, vPro, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, VMX, SMEP, SMAP, MPX, EIST, TM1, TM2, HT, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA
iGPUAMD Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) ( - 2200 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics Xe 750 32EUs (Rocket Lake) (350 - 1300 MHz)
Architecturex86x86
Announced
Manufacturerwww.amd.comark.intel.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - R9 7900
46.1 pt (77%)
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Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - i5-11600K
35.9 pt (60%)
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Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
24776 Points (23%)
min: 11124     avg: 11218     median: 11217.5 (10%)     max: 11311 Points
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
1966 Points (83%)
min: 1500     avg: 1530     median: 1529.5 (64%)     max: 1559 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
762 Points (83%)
min: 576     avg: 586     median: 585.5 (64%)     max: 595 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
9703 Points (24%)
min: 4254     avg: 4302     median: 4301.5 (10%)     max: 4349 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
4020 Points (25%)
min: 1738     avg: 1744     median: 1744 (11%)     max: 1750 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
315 Points (87%)
min: 234     avg: 238     median: 238 (66%)     max: 242 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
45.3 Points (59%)
19.3 Points (25%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
3.7 Points (87%)
2.9 Points (68%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
8339 Points (50%)
9745 Points (59%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
60934 Points (44%)
49408 Points (36%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
64663 Points (41%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
12957 Points (16%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
46.8 s (1%)
107.6 s (1%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
3 s (1%)
4.9 s (1%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
10154 Points (16%)
7850 Points (12%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multi Thread 4 runs
112881 MIPS (65%)
min: 44620     avg: 44971     median: 44971 (26%)     max: 45322 MIPS
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
7936 MIPS (94%)
min: 5987     avg: 6062     median: 6061.5 (71%)     max: 6136 MIPS
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
207 fps (69%)
min: 100.5     avg: 100.8     median: 100.8 (34%)     max: 101 fps
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
355.5 fps (82%)
min: 279     avg: 289     median: 289 (67%)     max: 299 fps
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
31.2 fps (55%)
min: 14     avg: 14.4     median: 14.4 (25%)     max: 14.7 fps
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
2 GB/s (59%)
0.9 GB/s (26%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
3.1 GB/s (53%)
1.5 GB/s (26%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
21.5 GB/s (56%)
9.7 GB/s (25%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CPU *
100%
1 R9 7900 +
199 Seconds (3%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
125 Seconds (1%)
min: 264.5     avg: 267.3     median: 267.3 (2%)     max: 270 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
0.4 sec (8%)
min: 0.506     avg: 0.5     median: 0.5 (11%)     max: 0.528 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
19451 Points (41%)
14519 Points (31%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
6.7 s (1%)
6.8 s (1%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
13.9 s (1%)
14.8 s (1%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
329 s (1%)
353.7 s (2%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
26325 Points (65%)
min: 15381     avg: 16381     median: 16381 (40%)     max: 17381 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 70567     avg: 75640     median: 75640 (61%)     max: 80713 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
79747 Points (65%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
81270 Points (65%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 14147     avg: 14403     median: 14402.5 (36%)     max: 14658 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 21677     avg: 22154     median: 22154 (39%)     max: 22631 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
14817 Points (62%)
min: 8286     avg: 8884     median: 8884 (37%)     max: 9482 Points
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
100%
1 R9 7900 +
2990 Points (75%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
100%
1 R9 7900 +
15725 Points (61%)
Geekbench 6.0 - Geekbench 6.0 Single-Core
100%
1 R9 7900 +
min: 2848     avg: 2859     median: 2858.5 (91%)     max: 2869 Points
Geekbench 6.0 - Geekbench 6.0 Multi-Core
100%
1 R9 7900 +
min: 16864     avg: 16913     median: 16912.5 (69%)     max: 16961 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
2203 Points (86%)
min: 1694     avg: 1723     median: 1723 (67%)     max: 1752 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
17880 Points (32%)
min: 8336     avg: 8430     median: 8429.5 (15%)     max: 8523 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
2096 Points (9%)
1731 Points (8%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
17581 Points (55%)
8542 Points (27%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
8861 Points (88%)
7438 Points (74%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
65241 Points (65%)
33266 Points (33%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
452 ms (1%)
min: 587     avg: 598     median: 597.5 (1%)     max: 608 ms
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 R9 7900 +
302 Points (83%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
366 Points (66%)
min: 263     avg: 271.5     median: 271.5 (49%)     max: 280 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
2322 Points (87%)
1652 Points (62%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 R9 7900 +
203 Watt (35%)
min: 187     avg: 204.7     median: 199 (34%)     max: 228 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 R9 7900 +
196.9 Watt (36%)
min: 177     avg: 195.3     median: 189 (34%)     max: 219.9 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 R9 7900 +
106.9 Watt (71%)
Power Consumption - Power Efficiency - Cinebench R15 Multi external Monitor
100%
1 R9 7900 +
20.4 Points per Watt (15%)
min: 7.9     avg: 8.9     median: 8.9 (7%)     max: 9.89 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 9 7900 → 100% n=38

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i5-11600K → 66% n=38

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