10 specifications

Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225F

On paper, the Intel Core i9-10900K boosts higher. Specifications describe what each chip is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 3 with a higher side

Intel Core i9-10900K

Intel · Comet Lake (10th gen) · Desktop

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Intel Core Ultra 5 225F

Intel · Arrow Lake-S (Core Ultra 200S) · Desktop

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Cores and clocks

Cores

Threads

Base clock

3.7 GHz

3.3 GHz

Boost clock

5.3 GHz

4.9 GHz

Cache and power

L3 cache

20 MB

TDP

125 W

65 W

Platform

Socket

FCLGA1200

FCLGA1851

Process

14 nm

3 nm

Integrated graphics

Intel UHD Graphics 630

None

Launched

2020-04

Not verified

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

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Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a processor behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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