Intel Core i9-10900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

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Price

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$ 478.79
$ 314.49
$ 164.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points
13563 points
79% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points
13462 points
63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points
13592 points
85% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points
13595 points
87% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points
12798 points
72% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points
412.82 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9329 points
17426 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1608 points
2844 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points
17750 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points
2946 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
12
20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
24
20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
3% slightly lower TDP
170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
100% significantly more pcie lanes
24

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
768 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
64 MiB
156% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

169th of 1,103
34th of 1,103

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2022 September

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
Yes

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