Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD A8-9600

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Price

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$ 484.10
$ 13.10
$ 471.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8255 points
461% significantly better overall score
1470 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8878 points
221% significantly better gaming score
2763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8031 points
620% significantly better multitasking score
1115 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7960 points
643% significantly better heavy workload score
1070 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.23 points
1080% significantly higher Blender score
19.59 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9381 points
590% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1359 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points
202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
569 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9141 points
510% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1498 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1778 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
150% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
400% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
55% significantly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
65 W
92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

148th of 1,114
842nd of 1,114

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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