AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-10500

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-10500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 7 2700 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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.