Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Core i9-10900K vs Ryzen 7 5700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 7 5700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700.

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.