Intel Core i5-13600K vs Intel Core i5-14400

Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-14400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13600K performs better than the Core i5-14400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13600K. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. Also, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.