Intel Core i9-10900 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 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

$ 390.77
$ 212.99
$ 177.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7582 points
2% slightly better overall score
7399 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8692 points
8984 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7207 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
6877 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7099 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6735 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12127 points
75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6914 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.66 points
207.23 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7743 points
9632 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1567 points
2079 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8309 points
9706 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1714 points
2147 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.40 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% 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

164th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
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

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-10900. 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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