Intel Core i9-10900X vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

Core i9-10900X vs Core i9-9900KS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900X performs better than the Core i9-9900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900X. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900KS outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.