Intel Core i9-10900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i9-10900KF vs Ryzen 9 8945HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900KF beats the Ryzen 9 8945HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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 8945HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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.