Intel Core i9-10900F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Price

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$ 406.54

$ 188.99

$ 217.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points

7857 points

0.42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points

10525 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6449 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

197.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8407 points

12599 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1701 points

2751 points

61% 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

2.8 GHz

3.70 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

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

154th of 1,089

152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 July

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 i9-10900F vs Ryzen 5 7500F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500F beats the Core i9-10900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900F has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900F. The Ryzen 5 7500F 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 i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.