Intel Core i9-10900F vs Intel Core i9-10900X

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

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Intel Core i9-10900X

Price

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$ 406.54

$ 72.25 slightly less expensive

$ 478.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points

3% slightly better overall score

7550 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points

2% slightly better gaming score

8222 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

7324 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

7249 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7406 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

202.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8456 points

9329 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1638 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1608 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8407 points

9481 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1701 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1574 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

256 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

Identical

640 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

25 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089

165th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900F vs Core i9-10900X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900F performs better than the Core i9-10900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10900F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.