Intel Core i7-10700KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Core i7-10700KF vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-10700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700KF. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.