AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-10700K

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-10700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i7-10700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10700K CPU because of its slightly 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 5950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.