Intel Core i9 9900KF vs AMD Athlon Gold 20
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Jan 2019
Oct 2025
Manufacturer
Intel
AMD
Type
Desktop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
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Core Architecture
Coffee Lake
Mendocino
Processor Number
i9-9900KF
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Integrated Graphics
N/A
Radeon 610M
Generation
-
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
Package
Manufacturing Process
14 nm
6 nm
Socket
LGA-1151
AMD Socket FT6
Power Consumption
95 W
15 W
Peak Operating Temperature
100 °C
95°C
Foundry
-
TSMC
Die Size
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100 mm²
Package
-
FT6
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
8
-
Performance Core Threads
16
-
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.6 GHz
2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
5 GHz
3.7 GHz
Total Core Count
8
2
Total Thread Count
16
4
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
36x
24.0
L1 Cache
64 K per core
64 KB per core
L2 Cache
256 K per core
512 KB per core
L3 Cache
16 MB shared
4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
SMP
-
1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2666
LPDDR5-5500
Max Memory Size
128 GB
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Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
41.6 GB/s
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ECC Memory Support
No
No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3.0
3
PCIe Lanes
16
4
Extended Instruction Set
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
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📊 Benchmark
Cinebench R23
1,260
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Cinebench R23
12,606
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Geekbench 6
1,612
888
Geekbench 5
1,300
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Geekbench 6
7,648
1,822
Geekbench 5
8,856
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Passmark CPU
2,945
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Passmark CPU
18,462
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