AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i5 11600

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 with 12 cores 3.7GHz and Intel Core i5 11600 with 6 cores 2.8GHz . 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 1 years and 10 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-3200)

Larger memory bandwidth (83.2GB/s vs 50GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 4.0)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 2.8GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 12MB)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +26%

2034

Intel Core i5 11600

1603

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +163%

29358

Intel Core i5 11600

11158

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +38%

2954

Intel Core i5 11600

2137

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +121%

17582

Intel Core i5 11600

7947

Blender

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +177%

496

Intel Core i5 11600

179

Geekbench 5 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +27%

2148

Intel Core i5 11600

1680

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +132%

17950

Intel Core i5 11600

7722

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +26%

4157

Intel Core i5 11600

3285

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 +169%

48850

Intel Core i5 11600

18114

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

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Intel Core i5 11600

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2021

Amd

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Zen 4 (Raphael)

Core Architecture

Rocket Lake

-

Processor Number

i5-11600

AM5

Socket

LGA-1200

Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 750

Package

13.1 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AM5

Socket

LGA-1200

65 W

Power Consumption

65 W

142W

Max Turbo Power Consumption

-

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

CPU Performance

12

Performance Cores

6

24

Performance Core Threads

12

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.8 GHz

12

Total Core Count

6

24

Total Thread Count

12

100MHz

Bus Frequency

100MHz

37x

Multiplier

28x

64K per core

L1 Cache

64K per core

1MB per core

L2 Cache

512K per core

64MB shared

L3 Cache

12MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-3200

128GB

Max Memory Size

128GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

83.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

50 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

True

Integrated Graphics

True

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

2200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1300 MHz

448

Shader Units

256

8

Texture Units

64

4

Raster Operation Units

32

2

Execution Units

32

15 W

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.46 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Official Website

Intel Core i5 11600

5.0

PCIe Version

4.0

28

PCIe Lanes

20

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