AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i5-10600K

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 209.95
$ 26.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
3% slightly better overall score
5576 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
7752 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
4881 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
4723 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
134.52 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points
6883 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points
1630 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
6842 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
1687 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.1 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
125 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
287th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Core i5-10600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X performs better than the Core i5-10600K. Despite this, the Core i5-10600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. The Core i5-10600K outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. The Ryzen Threadripper 1900X also has slightly 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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