Intel Core i5-10600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5421 points
5695 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7561 points
7851 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4735 points
4991 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4578 points
4825 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.09 points
144.95 points
4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
96 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

312th of 1,109
287th of 1,109

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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