Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 9 9955HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10600KF performs better than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.