Intel Core i9-10900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 478.79
$ 188.99
$ 289.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points
7573 points
0.30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points
10596 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
6600 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
6379 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points
12599 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points
2751 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.70 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
65 W
153% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
32 MiB
28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 1,089
164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

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 i9-10900X vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500F is faster than the Core i9-10900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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