Intel Core i5-10500 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i5-10500 vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.