Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

$ 484.10
$ 188.99
$ 295.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8226 points
4% slightly better overall score
7857 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8838 points
10525 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8007 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7938 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8988 points
39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.23 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9141 points
12599 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1778 points
2751 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.70 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
5 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
6 MiB
139% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900K vs Ryzen 5 7500F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900K. The Ryzen 5 7500F 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.

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