AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-10850H

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 109.25
$ 4122.75 significantly less expensive
$ 4232.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
8% slightly better overall score
4087 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
5% slightly better gaming score
5668 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
3607 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
3489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
94.57 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
5364 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
1430 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
5383 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
1451 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
5.1 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
45 W
111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

397th of 1,089
427th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
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 2600X vs Core i7-10850H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600X performs better than the Core i7-10850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10850H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10850H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10850H. The Ryzen 5 2600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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