AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-10900K

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i9-10900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-10900K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900K 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 9 5900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Ryzen 9 5900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 9 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.