AMD Ryzen 7 4800U vs Intel Core i5-10600K

Ryzen 7 4800U vs Core i5-10600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Ryzen 7 4800U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 4800U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800U 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 4800U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. Despite this, the Core i5-10600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U.

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 4800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.