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Intel Core i9-10900X Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-03-31

The Intel Core i9-10900X has 10 cores with 20 threads and is based on the 10. gen of the Intel Core i9 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 2066 socket and was released in Q4/2019. The Intel Core i9-10900X scores 1,171 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 10,651 points.

At a glance
Name:	Intel Core i9-10900X
Family:	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 10000X (4)
Architecture:	Cascade Lake
Technology:	14 nm
Segment:	Desktop
Generation:	10
Predecessor:	Intel Core i9-9900X
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i9-10900X has 10 CPU cores and can calculate 20 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i9-10900X is 3.70 GHz (4.70 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	10 / 20
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	10x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	Yes
Frequency:	3.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	4.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (10 Cores):	4.50 GHz

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--
NPU + CPU + iGPU:	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The Intel Core i9-10900X has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i9-10900X uses the no iGPU, which has -- texture shaders and -- execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	no iGPU
GPU frequency:
GPU (Turbo):	No turbo
Compute units:	--
Shader:	--
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:

Max. displays:
Generation:	--
Direct X:	--
Technology:
Max. GPU Memory:	--
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	No
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	No
VC-1:	No
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 256 GB memory in 4 (Quad Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 93.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR4-2933	93.8 GB/s
Max. Memory:	256 GB
Memory channels:	4 (Quad Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 48
PCIe Bandwidth:	47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 165 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	165 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	94 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i9-10900X is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 19.25 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 2066
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	19.25 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date:	Q4/2019
Release price:	590 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz (4.70 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i9-10900X have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-6900K 8C 16T @ 3.70 GHz	1151
	Intel Core i7-8700 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	1146
	Intel Core i7-8700B 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	1146
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz	1143
	Microsoft XBox Series X 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	1142
	Intel Core i3-10100F 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	1141
	Intel Core i3-10100 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	1141

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14350
	Intel Core i7-11700 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	14327
	Intel Core i7-11700F 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	14327
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	14301
	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14230
	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14075
	AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	14072

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a partial load benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. In the single-core test, only the fastest CPU core is measured. The test run simulates the performance in practice.


	Intel Core i9-9900T 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	1447
	Intel Core i3-10100 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	1446
	Intel Core i3-10100F 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	1446
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz	1445
	Intel Xeon E3-1275 v5 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1442
	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1442
	Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y 24C 48T @ 3.60 GHz	1439

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

The practical Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load. The processor's maximum power consumption is far from being used up.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	8814
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16C 32T @ 3.50 GHz	8814
	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	8769
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	8727
	Intel Core i3-14100 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	8720
	Intel Core i3-14100F 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	8720
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16C 32T @ 3.50 GHz	8710

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i3-8350K 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	1172
	Intel Core i7-8700 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	1172
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8358P 32C 64T @ 3.40 GHz	1172
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz	1171
	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	1169
	Intel Core i5-9500 6C 6T @ 4.40 GHz	1168
	Intel Core i5-9500F 6C 6T @ 4.40 GHz	1168

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i9-10900 10C 20T @ 4.60 GHz	10744
	Intel Core i9-10900F 10C 20T @ 4.60 GHz	10744
	Intel Core i7-12700TE 12C 20T @ 3.20 GHz	10689
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	10651
	Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16C 32T @ 2.60 GHz	10644
	AMD Ryzen 5 8600G 6C 12T @ 4.75 GHz	10638
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8600G 6C 12T @ 4.75 GHz	10638

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i9-10850K 10C 20T @ 4.80 GHz	22755
	Intel Xeon Gold 6132 14C 28T @ 2.90 GHz	22754
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	22674
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	22510
	Intel Xeon Gold 5218 16C 32T @ 2.70 GHz	22369
	Intel Xeon Gold 6136 12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz	22355
	Intel Xeon Gold 6144 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	22306

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Core i9-10900K 10C 20T @ 4.90 GHz	126
	Intel Core i9-10900KF 10C 20T @ 4.90 GHz	126
	Intel Core i9-10850K 10C 20T @ 4.80 GHz	129
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	135.4
	Intel Core i9-7900X 10C 20T @ 4.00 GHz	137.7
	Intel Core i9-9920X 12C 24T @ 4.30 GHz	138
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz	148

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 16C 32T @ 2.30 GHz	6076
	Intel Core i9-9900KS 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	6012
	Intel Core i7-6950X 10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz	5950
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz	5948
	Intel Core i7-11700 8C 16T @ 2.50 GHz	5920
	Intel Core i7-11700F 8C 16T @ 2.50 GHz	5837
	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5676

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-7700K 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	200
	Intel Core i7-7740X 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	200
	Intel Core i9-9960X 16C 32T @ 4.50 GHz	200
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz	198
	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	197
	Intel Core i3-10300 4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	197
	Intel Core i9-9940X 14C 28T @ 4.50 GHz	197

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Xeon Gold 6146 12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz	2399
	Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 18C 36T @ 2.50 GHz	2384
	Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz	2381
	Intel Core i9-10900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	2358
	Intel Core i7-10700K 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	2344
	Intel Core i7-10700KF 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	2344
	Intel Core i5-13400 10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz	2336

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
632 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
614 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,854 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,788 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,506 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,474 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,444 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
742 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
250 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,108 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,104 entries

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