Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i9-9900

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-9900

Price

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$ 298.15

$ 172.33 significantly less expensive

$ 470.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points

2% slightly better overall score

6105 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points

7952 points

0.29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

5494 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

5338 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points

9955 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points

148.10 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7060 points

7103 points

0.61% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

1598 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points

7287 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

0.49% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1617 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.1 GHz

6% 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

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089

246th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700 vs Core i9-9900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700 is faster than the Core i9-9900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Also, the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.