Intel Core i9-10900K and Core i5-10600K Review

👤by David Mitchelson  Comments 📅20-05-20

Test Setup & Testing

For the purpose of testing both Comet Lake CPUs we used the MSI MEG Z490 UNIFY since it is placed as a high-end motherboard, this should give us the capabilities of showing the true potential for both models.

CPUs being tested

Intel Core i9-10900K (5.2GHz) Comet Lake-S
Intel Core i5-10600K (4.80GHz) Comet Lake-S

TEST SETUP

Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H110i
Motherboard MSI MEG Z490 UNIFY
Memory 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz
Graphics Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage Intel S3500 128GB
PSU Corsair RM 1000 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Monitor AOC U2879VF

BENCHMARKS

Cinebench R15/R20 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER