Intel Core i7-10700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 201.50
$ 135.32
$ 66.18 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6380 points
1% slightly better overall score
6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8207 points
8333 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5766 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5592 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6906 points
21% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5664 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.44 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7109 points
8330 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1547 points
1980 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7260 points
8600 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1638 points
2052 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.50 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

228th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 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

DDR4-2933
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-10700F vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700F beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700F. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-10700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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