Intel Core i9-10900KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

$ 439.00
$ 212.99
$ 226.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8768 points
18% slightly better overall score
7399 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9745 points
8% slightly better gaming score
8984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8418 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
6877 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8304 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
6735 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8953 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6914 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.11 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
207.23 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9629 points
9632 points
0.03% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1774 points
2079 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9168 points
9706 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points
2147 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 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
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% 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
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4

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 i9-10900KF vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i9-10900KF 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 5700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900KF. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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