Intel Core i9-10900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 439.00

$ 195.30

$ 243.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8768 points

1% slightly better overall score

8673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9745 points

12393 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8418 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8304 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8953 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7587 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.11 points

233.29 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9168 points

14957 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points

3338 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

480 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

117th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900KF vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900KF. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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 i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.