Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
$ 229.62 significantly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5658 points
7335 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7822 points
8938 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4969 points
6797 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4811 points
6646 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5399 points
7297 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.51 points
209.61 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6687 points
10897 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
2052 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6783 points
11047 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1685 points
2117 points
25% 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

4.1 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

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
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
4 MiB
166% 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

280th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Core i5-10600KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10600KF has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Also, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D also has significantly 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 i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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