Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 269.97

$ 14.82 slightly less expensive

$ 284.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9936 points

12025 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12084 points

14272 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9267 points

11307 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9125 points

11156 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9089 points

10606 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

255.79 points

303.53 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12160 points

16100 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2419 points

2838 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.5 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

20 MiB

400% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

Identical

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-13500 vs Core i5-14600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.