Intel Core i5-10600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5576 points

6306 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7752 points

8479 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4881 points

5619 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4723 points

5454 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

134.52 points

163.82 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10475 points

13029 points

24% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6842 points

9274 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1687 points

2302 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz

4.30 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

54 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

6 MiB

300% significantly 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

287th of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10600K vs Ryzen 5 7640HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7640HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.