AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-10900X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 348.79 significantly less expensive

$ 478.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

7550 points

81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

8222 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

7324 points

116% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

7249 points

122% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

7406 points

91% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

202.00 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

9329 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1608 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

9481 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

1574 points

0.13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.5 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

165th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i9-10900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900X beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.