Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Core i5-10600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-10600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Core i5-10600KF 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 9 8940HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-10600KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX.

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.