Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

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Price

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$ 380.99
$ 188.06 significantly less expensive
$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points
15772 points
133% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points
15040 points
81% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points
16008 points
156% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points
16094 points
164% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7292 points
13700 points
87% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points
466.69 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
20191 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points
3294 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.4 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.5 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
120 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
128 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

214th of 1,099
19th of 1,099

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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