Intel Core i9-10900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 478.79

$ 195.30

$ 283.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points

8673 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points

12393 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points

7498 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points

0.06% slightly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points

7587 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points

233.29 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points

14957 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points

3338 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.4 GHz

20% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

480 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

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10900X vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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.