Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Core i9-10900K vs Ryzen 5 4500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 5 4500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4500. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4500. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K thanks to a significantly 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 Ryzen 5 4500 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500.

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.