Intel Core i7 10700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

We compared two CPUs: the 3.8 GHz Intel Core i7 10700K (desktop) with 8-cores against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 6600H (laptop) with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 6600H and 10700K
Advantages of Intel Core i7 10700K
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-2933 RAM
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 660M integrated graphics: 1.5 vs 0.5 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process โ€“ 6 versus 14 nanometers
  • Around 31 GB/s (68%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Newer - released 1 year and 9 months later
  • Newer PCI Express version โ€“ 4.0
  • 14% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1954 vs 1711 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
1954
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 647.3 MB/sec 857 MB/sec
Clang compilation 76.4 Klines/sec 62.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 169.6 pages/sec 169.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 296.9 Mpixels/sec 223.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 173 pages/sec 208.8 pages/sec
Background blur 38.9 images/sec 41.6 images/sec
Photo processing 63.4 images/sec 73.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 16.5 Mpixels/sec 14.8 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 737 & 1041 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
18522
Integer math 66.6 GOps/sec 63.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 41.3 GOps/sec 35.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 54M Primes/sec 49M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 36.6M Strings/sec 23.2M Strings/sec
Data encryption 6.4 GBytes/sec 13.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 294.7 MBytes/sec 222.9 MBytes/sec
Physics 930 Frames/sec 848 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.4B Matrices/sec 15.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 7682 & 1976 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
178.9
132.39

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 5.7 PPW 12.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 67.9 PPW 189.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 148.2 PPW 401.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 1.43 PPW 2.94 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i7 10700K
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2024-07-10 (Guest #0)Cinebench 202477 / 716
๐Ÿ“˜ 2024-05-04 (Tris)Cinebench 202462 / 415
AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-06-21 (Reitz)Cinebench 202487 / 597
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-06-17 (SamsulGG15)GeekBench2051 / 9242
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-01-31 (Elitube)GeekBench1820 / 6311
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-07-10 (Swaddy)GeekBench2024 / 8943

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 10700K and AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released May 1, 2020 January 4, 2022
Type Desktop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Comet Lake Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Model number i7-10700K -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 630 Radeon 660M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Intel Core i5 12600H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#132nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 6
P-Threads 16 12
Base Frequency (P) 3.8 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 4.5 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 6
Total Threads 16 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 38x 33x
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Package

Fabrication Process 14 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 125 W 45 W
Socket LGA-1200 FP7
Peak Temperature 100ยฐC 95ยฐC
Desktop CPU ranking (#138th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 AMD Radeon 660M
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1200 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 192 384
TMUs 24 24
ROPs 3 16
Execution Units 24 6
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.5 TFLOPS
1.5 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2933 - DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 45.8 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i7 10700K official page AMD Ryzen 5 6600H official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 20

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