Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Core i9-10900K vs Core i9-9900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900K is faster than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more cores than the Core i9-9900K. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900K. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900K outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 Core i9-10900K has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Core i9-10900K also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.