AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i9-10900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.40
$ 348.14 significantly less expensive
$ 406.54

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
7824 points
74% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
8393 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
7630 points
90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
7561 points
95% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points
12251 points
283% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
210.12 points
109% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
8456 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1638 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
8407 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1701 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
640 KiB
11% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
20% slightly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
154th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i9-10900F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900F performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600. 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 i9-10900F has significantly more cores with 10 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 1600.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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