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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 406.54
$ 188.99
$ 217.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points
2% slightly better overall score
7639 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points
10534 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
6704 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
6484 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points
89% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8407 points
12599 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

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
3.70 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

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
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

163rd of 1,118
169th of 1,118

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

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900F vs Ryzen 5 7500F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900F beats the Ryzen 5 7500F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F 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. 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.

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