Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 380.99

$ 149.48

$ 231.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points

5% slightly better overall score

6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points

8665 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7292 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5539 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7974 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points

2039 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

4.59 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700K vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.