Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx vs Intel Core i5-9600K

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i5-9600K
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Intel Core i5-9600K

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx and the Intel Core i5-9600K and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 8 core processor released in Q4/2018 with the Intel Core i5-9600K which has 6 CPU cores and was introduced in Q4/2018.
Qualcomm Snapdragon (102) Family Intel Core i5 (331)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (2) CPU group Intel Core i 9000 (34)
2 Generation 9
Kryo 495 Architecture Coffee Lake S Refresh
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Intel Core i5-8600K
-- Successor Intel Core i5-10600K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.84 GHz. The processor can compute 8 threads at the same time. The Intel Core i5-9600K clocks with 3.70 GHz (4.60 GHz), has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 6 threads in parallel.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Characteristic Intel Core i5-9600K
8 Cores 6
8 Threads 6
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? Yes
2.84 GHz
4x Kryo 495 Gold
A-Core 3.70 GHz (4.60 GHz)
1.80 GHz
4x Kryo 495 Silver
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Characteristic Intel Core i5-9600K
Qualcomm AI engine AI hardware --
Hexagon 685 @ 3 TOPS AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Qualcomm Adreno 680 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
0.25 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
0.59 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.15 GHz
5 GPU Generation 9.5
7 nm Technology 14 nm
2 Max. displays 3
8 Compute units 24
768 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory 64 GB
12.0 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Qualcomm Adreno 680 GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 16 GB of memory in a maximum of 8 memory channels is supported by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx, while the Intel Core i5-9600K supports a maximum of 128 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s enabled.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Characteristic Intel Core i5-9600K
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory DDR4-2666
16 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
8 (Octa Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 42.7 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache 9.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx has a TDP of 7 W. The TDP of the Intel Core i5-9600K is 95 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Characteristic Intel Core i5-9600K
7 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 95 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx has 2.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 7 nm. The cache of Intel Core i5-9600K is at 9.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Characteristic Intel Core i5-9600K
7 nm Technology 14 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
-- Socket LGA 1151-2
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM) Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2018 Release date Q4/2018
-- Release price 260 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (58%)
Intel Core i5-9600K (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (50%)
Intel Core i5-9600K (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
724 (58%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
1244 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
2808 (50%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
5643 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Qualcomm Adreno 680 @ 0.59 GHz
1843 (100%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.15 GHz
442 (24%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
73 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
355 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
1276 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
7301 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
1561 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
6244 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
481 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
2624 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
10791 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
318.4 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
522 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz
2882 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
204 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 4.30 GHz
1165 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz
3 (100%)
Intel Core i5-9600K Intel Core i5-9600K
6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Intel Core i5-9600K
Lenovo Flex 5G
Lenovo Yoga C 5G
Samsung Galaxy Book S
Multimedia Office PC Intel Core i5 9600K
Memory PC Intel PC Core i5-9600K
NEXOC Gaming Notebook Laptop 15.6 Zoll mit i5-9600K

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