Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99
$ 7.01 slightly less expensive
$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5658 points
8583 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7822 points
11637 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4969 points
7604 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4811 points
7365 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5399 points
6996 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.51 points
208.44 points
60% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6687 points
12562 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
2799 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6783 points
12876 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1685 points
2889 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

4.1 GHz
4.70 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
105 W
19% slightly lower TDP

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
6 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 5 7600X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600X performs better than the Core i5-10600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600KF in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10600KF. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Core i5-10600KF thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 5 7600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 5 7600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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