Intel Core i9-10850K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 190.07

$ 208.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8580 points

6% slightly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9432 points

10893 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8275 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8174 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8802 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

227.80 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15538 points

22% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9293 points

11709 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1716 points

2649 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9021 points

12203 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1758 points

2751 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 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

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

6 MiB

139% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

122nd of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10850K vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10850K beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10850K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10850K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10850K. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.