AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i9-10850K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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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Intel Core i9-10850K

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 174.75 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

8580 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

9432 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

8275 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

8174 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

8802 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

227.80 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

15538 points

31% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

9293 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1716 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

9021 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1758 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

122nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2020 August

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 5600X vs Core i9-10850K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10850K performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10850K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10850K. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10850K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10850K. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.