Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i7-10700K

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Price

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$ 159.00
$ 221.99 significantly less expensive
$ 380.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4526 points
6751 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6446 points
8301 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3934 points
6232 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3805 points
6087 points
59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7252 points
7292 points
0.55% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.71 points
177.76 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5596 points
8022 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1501 points
1655 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5547 points
8131 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points
1719 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.1 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,091
208th of 1,091

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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