AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i9-10900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

$ 235.99
$ 248.11 significantly less expensive
$ 484.10

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points
8226 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points
8838 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points
8007 points
54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points
7938 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points
8988 points
99% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points
231.23 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8891 points
15821 points
77% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points
9381 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points
1723 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points
9141 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
1778 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly 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 GHz
5.3 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
31% slightly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
60% significantly 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

289th of 1,089
138th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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 7 1800X vs Core i9-10900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X. A Ryzen 7 1800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900K CPU because of its slightly 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 1800X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X.

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 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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