AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i9-10900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series 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

$ 140.99
$ 298.01 significantly less expensive
$ 439.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
8768 points
42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
9745 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
8418 points
54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
8304 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
8953 points
62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
226.11 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
9629 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1774 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
9168 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1783 points

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

3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.3 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly 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

243rd of 1,089
117th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i9-10900KF benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600G has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-10900KF has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G.

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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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