AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-10900KF

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8854 points
0.98% slightly better overall score
8768 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9545 points
9745 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8646 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
8418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8600 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
8304 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8096 points
8953 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
226.11 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9801 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9629 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2053 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1774 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10663 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9168 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2128 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1783 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
139% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,096
120th of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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