Intel Core i5-14400F vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8708 points
15072 points
73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11173 points
15233 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7924 points
14981 points
89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7722 points
14876 points
92% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

193.46 points
346.56 points
79% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
20
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
24
20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

192 GiB
256 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

9.5 MiB
36 MiB
278% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
30 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

125th of 1,124
23rd of 1,124

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-6400

Core i5-14400F vs Core Ultra 7 265F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 265F is faster than the Core i5-14400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 265F has significantly more cores than the Core i5-14400F. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 265F has 20 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-14400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 265F. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 265F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 265F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14400F. The Core Ultra 7 265F also has significantly more 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 i5-14400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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