Intel Core i9-10900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

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Price

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$ 478.79
$ 53.39 slightly less expensive
$ 532.18

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points
17229 points
128% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points
15130 points
84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points
17969 points
145% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points
18272 points
152% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points
16731 points
125% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points
605.81 points
199% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points
21438 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points
3385 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
16
60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.7 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
3% slightly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
1280 KiB
100% significantly 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

165th of 1,089
7th 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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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