AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i5-10600

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i5-10600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600 beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10600. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a 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 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.