AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i9-10900

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i9-10900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Ryzen 7 5800 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900. The Ryzen 7 5800 also has significantly 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 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.