AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-10850K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-10850K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10850K beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10850K has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10850K. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10850K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10850K. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.