AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-10700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-10700T

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 210.60 significantly less expensive

$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

5467 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

7011 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4964 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

4832 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

111.67 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5641 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1421 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

297th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-10700T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700T beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700T. Despite this, the Core i7-10700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.