Intel Core i9-10900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Core i9-10900K vs Ryzen 7 5800XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 7 5800XT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800XT 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 5800XT has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800XT 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 5800XT 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 Ryzen 7 5800XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Ryzen 7 5800XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.