Ryzen 5 9600X vs i5-14600K // w/ Ryzen Patch + 105W TDP Mode

💻 PC Specs - Buy on Amazon / Newegg
Custom water cooled (CPU) - MO-RA 360, EK-Quantum Velocity Full Nickel

🎮 Games
00:00 Horizon Forbidden West
00:51 Black Myth: Wukong - Path Tracing
01:38 Cyberpunk 2077 - Ray Tracing
02:36 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
03:27 Star Wars Outlaws
04:16 A Plague Tale: Requiem
05:04 Microsoft Flight Simulator
05:47 Starfield
06:33 F1 23 - Ray Tracing
07:19 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

AMD CPU: 105W TDP mode
Intel CPU: Intel defaults settings - Performance
GPU: rBAR enabled
RAM: EXPO II / XMP II profiles
OS: Windows 11 23H2 + KB5041587 update, Core Isolation (HVCI) enabled
I used two SSDs with a clean Win installation for this test!

AMD Chipset drivers: 6.07.22.037
AGESA version Combo AM5 PI 1.2.0.0a Patch A

🎥 Recorded with dual PC Setup (The GPU was only connected to a capture card, without a second monitor. No FPS loss!)

📊 Overlay - MSI Afterburner, Rivatuner, HWiNFO, CapFrameX
Frametime graph: 0 - 50ms
1% LOW, AVG FPS: Average of 3 runs and logged with CapFrameX

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*Average values of these 10 games:*

9600X AVG FPS: 138.7 FPS
14600K AVG FPS: 142.2 FPS
*Percentage difference: 2.5%*

9600X 1% LOW: 95.7 FPS
14600K 1% LOW: 102.4
*Percentage difference: 7%*

9600X CPU Power: 93.2 W
14600K CPU Power: 136.6 W
*Percentage difference: 46.6%*

💻 *PC Specs - Buy on Amazon / Newegg*
Custom water cooled (CPU) - MO-RA 360, EK-Quantum Velocity Full Nickel


🎮 *Games*
00:00 Horizon Forbidden West
00:51 Black Myth: Wukong - Path Tracing
01:38 Cyberpunk 2077 - Ray Tracing
02:36 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
03:27 Star Wars Outlaws
04:16 A Plague Tale: Requiem
05:04 Microsoft Flight Simulator
05:47 Starfield
06:33 F1 23 - Ray Tracing
07:19 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

AMD CPU: 105W TDP mode
Intel CPU: Intel defaults settings - Performance
GPU: rBAR enabled
RAM: EXPO II / XMP II profiles
OS: Windows 11 23H2 + KB5041587 update, Core Isolation (HVCI) enabled
I used two SSDs with a clean Win installation for this test!

AMD Chipset drivers: 6.07.22.037
AGESA version Combo AM5 PI 1.2.0.0a Patch A

🎥 Recorded with dual PC Setup (No FPS loss, but screen tearing..)

📊 Overlay - MSI Afterburner, Rivatuner, HWiNFO, CapFrameX
Frametime graph: 0 - 50ms
1% LOW, AVG FPS: Average of 3 runs and logged with CapFrameX

[rasluffi]

The utilization of Flight Sim is crazy lol

[selohcin]

The 14600K is often 5-10% faster, but MAN does it use a lot of power! It often puts out 50% more heat than the 9600X does. There is no way I would be willing to put up with 165-170 watts coming from my CPU while I play Starfield. The 9600X only uses around 100 watts here, and I'll bet it's almost as fast as this even if you stick to the original 65 watts! Would you be willing to test the 65W limit against the 105W limit? It's probably at least 95% as good!

[PixelatedWolf]

Great video! I wonder why AMDs performance is so middling.

[johnwhan]

Ok now undervolt the 14600k and overclock it.🤔

[KenpachiAjax]

Do it with pubg. Which is a CPU intensive game.

[Hakaluk_BENCHMARK]

Nice. If you'd done a test even at 1440p, the Intel was much better. Ryzen 9600x is a pretty overpriced CPU for me. Thx😀

[Airborntx]

same performance but amd lower price, the last game was ridiculously bad implemented on the amd processor giving intel a fake advantage, using intel these days is simply a waste of money or just fanboy, data is there.

[listX_DE]

This is so Bad of a test with Path tracing??! Yea lets test a CPU but bottleneck it with a gpu

[justfun]

They both require too much energy imo. Ridiculous.

Id like to see a rematch with e-cores disabled.

[-Rizecek-]

14600K without hyper-threading give us cca 10-20FPS more. Ryzen 9000 is joke !