Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Core i9-10900K vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 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 5600. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly 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.