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Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD EPYC 7252

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-9900K

Rank 2 - 75 %

AMD EPYC 7252

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 95 %

Intel Core i9-9900K

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD EPYC 7252

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

518 cb

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

372 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,342

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

1,004

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,779

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

9,264

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	AMD EPYC (147)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	AMD EPYC 7002 (25)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Rome (Zen 2)
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Server
Socket	LGA 1151-2	SP3
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i9-10900K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	8x
Frequency:	3.60 GHz	3.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	5.00 GHz	3.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.70 GHz	3.20 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	16.00 MB	64.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB
Technology	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB
Memory channels	2	8
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0 x 128
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	252.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
TDP	95 W	120 W
TDP (PL2)	119 W @ 28 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900K	AMD EPYC 7252
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q4/2018	Q3/2019
Release price	650 $	790 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-9900K is 4.2 stars (109 ratings), while AMD EPYC 7252 has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-9900K
8C / 16T · 3.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★

AMD EPYC 7252
8C / 16T · 3.10 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★