Intel Core i9-10920X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

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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AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Price

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$ 769.87

$ 199.20

$ 570.67 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7975 points

8170 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7849 points

9554 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8024 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

7711 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8038 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

7565 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11797 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7628 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

251.40 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

214.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.80 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

105 W

57% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

158th of 1,125

151st 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 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10920X vs Ryzen 7 5800XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800XT beats the Core i9-10920X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10920X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800XT has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10920X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800XT 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.