Intel Core i5-14400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 223.69
$ 222.50
$ 1.19 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8601 points
13% slightly better overall score
7604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11043 points
4% slightly better gaming score
10588 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7824 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
6642 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7622 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
6422 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7397 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6178 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

193.46 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
173.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11074 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10810 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points
2486 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
4.35 GHz
73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

9.5 MiB
58% significantly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

120th of 1,089
161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i5-14400F vs Ryzen 5 8600G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8600G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8600G. The Core i5-14400F also has slightly 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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