Intel Core i5-9600K Review: A Mid-Range Gamer's CPU
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Page 1:The Core i5 Doldrums
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Page 2:Overclocking, Power, and Test Setup
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Page 3:VRMark, 3DMark and AotS: Escalation
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Page 4:Civilization VI Graphics and AI, Dawn of War III
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Page 5:GTA: V and Hitman
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Page 6:Shadow Of War and Project CARS 2
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Page 7:Office and Productivity
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Page 8:Rendering, Encoding and Compression
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Page 9:Conclusion
Rendering, Encoding and Compression
Rendering
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AMD's Ryzen 7 2700 shows the value of eight cores armed with simultaneous multi-threading technology through our parallelized rendering workloads.
The Core i5-9600K trails its comparably-priced competition from AMD, and it only offers a small step forward versus the previous-gen Core i5-8600K.
Single-threaded workloads, regardless of software type, are still dominated by Intel's capable architectures.
Encoding & Compression
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Our threaded compression and decompression metrics work directly from system memory, removing storage throughput from the equation. The Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 5 2600X are competitive in the compression test, but really stretch their legs during our decompression workload.
y-cruncher, a single- and multi-threaded program that computes pi, is a great benchmark for measuring the effect of AVX instructions. Intel processors have no trouble establishing a lead in this kind of test.
The Core i5-9600K beats AMD's Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 5 2600X in our HandBrake x265 metric, which is heavily optimized for AVX instructions. That changes during the H.264 benchmark, which sees the Core i5-9600K trail a stock Ryzen 5 2600X. Intel needs a 5 GHz overclock to overtake the stock Ryzen 7 2700.
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