Intel Core i7-10700KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

$ 245.99
$ 212.99
$ 33.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7179 points
7399 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8706 points
8984 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6665 points
6877 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6515 points
6735 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7286 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6914 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.73 points
207.23 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8224 points
9632 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1675 points
2079 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8135 points
9706 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points
2147 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% 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

179th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 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

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-10700KF vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X 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 i7-10700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 7 5700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700KF. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more 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 i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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