AMD Athlon Gold 20 vs Intel Core i9 9900X
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2025
Oct 2018
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Desktop
Core Architecture
Mendocino
Skylake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 610M
N/A
Generation
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
-
Instruction Set
-
x86-64
Processor Number
-
i9-9900X
Package
Manufacturing Process
6 nm
14 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FT6
LGA-2066
Power Consumption
15 W
165 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
92 °C
Foundry
TSMC
-
Die Size
100 mm²
-
Package
FT6
-
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
Total Core Count
2
10
Total Thread Count
4
20
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
35x
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
1 MB per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
SMP
1
-
Performance Cores
-
10
Performance Core Threads
-
20
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
LPDDR5-5500
DDR4-2666
Max Memory Channels
2
4
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Max Memory Size
-
128 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
-
85 GB/s
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3
3.0
PCIe Lanes
4
44
Extended Instruction Set
-
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512
📊 Benchmark
Geekbench 6
888
1,455
Geekbench 6
1,822
10,273
Cinebench R23
-
1,182
Cinebench R23
-
13,994
Geekbench 5
-
1,165
Geekbench 5
-
10,704
Passmark CPU
-
2,565
Passmark CPU
-
21,833