Intel Core i9-10920X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Compare Intel Core X-series 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 769.87
$ 157.50
$ 612.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7975 points
3% slightly better overall score
7682 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7849 points
9270 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8024 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
7139 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8038 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
6975 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11797 points
78% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6611 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

251.40 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
187.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11106 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8779 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1664 points
1998 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.70 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

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

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

158th of 1,125
167th of 1,125

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4

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 i9-10920X vs Ryzen 7 5700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10920X performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10920X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700. Indeed, the Core i9-10920X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10920X. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 7 5700 outputs less heat than Core i9-10920X 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 i9-10920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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