amd ryzen 9 5900x vs intel core i9 10850k

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (Desktop) 12-cores against Intel Core i9 10850K (Desktop) 10-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Intel Core i9 10850K
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
  • Newer released 0 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Consumes up to 16% less energy than the Intel Core i9 10850K – 105 vs 125 Watt
  • Around 5.4 GB/s (11%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 44 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i9 10850K
  • Newer released 2020 years later
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.8 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1569
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
20736
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3515
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
39713
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1654
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
14198

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5900x and core i9 10850k

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Vendor AMD Intel
Released October 8 2020 August 27 2020
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Vermeer Comet Lake-S
Socket AM4 FCLGA1200
Integrated GPU - Intel UHD Graphics 630

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Cores 12 10
Threads 24 20
Base Frequency 3.7 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.8 GHz 5.1 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 64 MB 20 MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 105 W 125 W
Max. temperature °C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4-2933
Memory Size 128 GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 45.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Integrated Graphics - Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU Base Clock MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.2 MHz
Shading Units 192
TMUs 24
ROPs 3
TGP W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Intel Core i9 10850K
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5900X official page Intel Core i9 10850K official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i9 10850K or AMD Ryzen 9 5900X?