Intel Core i9-10900F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

$ 406.54
$ 386.14
$ 20.40 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7824 points
10011 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8393 points
11884 points
41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7630 points
9348 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7561 points
9142 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12251 points
52% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
8010 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

210.12 points
263.24 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8407 points
15051 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1701 points
2723 points
60% significantly 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
4.20 GHz
50% significantly 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
84% significantly lower TDP
120 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
8 MiB
220% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
96 MiB
380% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

153rd of 1,089
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-10900F vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Core i9-10900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-10900F has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly 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 Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900F. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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