AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-10710U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

41% slightly better overall score

3046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

32% slightly better gaming score

4440 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

2617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

2519 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

70.12 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

227% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

533rd 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

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i7-10710U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10710U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. The Core i7-10710U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10710U. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.