Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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
$ 216.15 significantly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5658 points
10011 points
76% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7822 points
11884 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4969 points
9348 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4811 points
9142 points
90% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5399 points
8010 points
48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.51 points
263.24 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6783 points
15051 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1685 points
2723 points
61% significantly 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
4.20 GHz
2% 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
120 W
4% 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
8 MiB
433% 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
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

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

No
-

Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10600KF. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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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