AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i9-10885H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i9-10885H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10885H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10885H 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.

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.