Intel Core i9-10900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i9-10900KF vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900KF beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-10900KF has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-10900KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX.

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.