Intel Core i5-10600K 10th Gen LGA1200 CPU Review

Workstation & Productivity Testing

Blender Benchmark 2.82 – BMW27

A new platform to collect and display the results of hardware and software performance tests. Aimed at an optimal comparison between system hardware and installations using open source software and testing content in the public domain.

For real-world productivity, there is zero substitutes for raw core count, and this is no exception. We still see the faster clock speeds help the i5-10600K edge out the 8700K though.

POV-Ray 3.7 Standard Benchmark – CPU

The POV-Ray standard benchmark shows similar results with the i5-10600K obliterate it’s older but higher-tier counterpart.

x265 HD Benchmark
A benchmark that measures how fast your computer can encode HD (1080p) video in the new H.265 / HEVC format.

Encoding video to HEVC is not that uncommon these days, and the i5-10600K handles it well.

7-Zip

The benchmark shows a rating in MIPS (million instructions per second). The rating value is calculated from the measured speed, and it is normalized with the results of the Intel Core 2 CPU with a multi-threading option switched off. So if you have modern CPU from Intel or AMD, rating values in single-thread mode must be close to real CPU frequency. There are two tests, compression with the LZMA method and decompression with the LZMA method. Once the total passes reach 50, the score is taken

Zipping and unzipping files to send is another frequent task that is even more common in this ‘work-from-home’ world this year. The 10600K handles this readily and edges out previous 6-core parts by around 50%.