Intel Core i9-10900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 406.54
$ 74.99
$ 331.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points
31% slightly better overall score
5935 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points
5% slightly better gaming score
7976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
5271 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
5105 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points
124% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5451 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
141.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8456 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7589 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1638 points
1833 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8407 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7653 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1701 points
1872 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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
3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 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
66% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
3 MiB
20% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

164th of 1,125
272nd of 1,125

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5 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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