AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-10600K

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-10600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-10600K. The Ryzen 7 2700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.