Intel Core i5-14400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600

Core i5-14400 vs Ryzen 5 9600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 9600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600 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 Ryzen 5 9600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600 has significantly 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 i5-14400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.