Intel Core i9-10900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7582 points
7598 points
0.21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8692 points
10348 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7207 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7099 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
6473 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.66 points
199.09 points
20% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
4.00 GHz
42% significantly higher clock speed

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
96 MiB
380% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

163rd of 1,089
161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900 vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D is faster than the Core i9-10900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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