AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i5-10600K

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i5-10600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800H is faster than the Core i5-10600K. Despite this, the Core i5-10600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800H. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. The Ryzen 7 5800H 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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.