Intel Core i5-14400 vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Core i5-14400 vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14650HX beats the Core i5-14400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14400. The Core i7-14650HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.