AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-10700F

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-10700F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Core i7-10700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-10700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-10700F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700F. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.