Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Core i9-10850K vs Core i9-9900K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10850K performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10850K has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-9900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. Both the Core i9-10850K and Core i9-9900K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900K outputs less heat than Core i9-10850K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 Core i9-10850K has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Core i9-10850K also has slightly more 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 i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.