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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 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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$ 140.99

$ 337.80 significantly less expensive

$ 478.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

7550 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

0.86% slightly better gaming score

8222 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

7324 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

7249 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

7406 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

202.00 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

9329 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1608 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

9481 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1574 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

165th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i9-10900X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900X performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900X 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900X. Despite this, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G 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.

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