AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-10920X

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-10920X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10920X 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 i9-10920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10920X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10920X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.