Intel Core i5-14400F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 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
$ 77.87 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8601 points
11120 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11043 points
13778 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7824 points
10239 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7622 points
9995 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7397 points
9722 points
31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

193.46 points
302.05 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11074 points
16965 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points
3349 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.5 GHz
17% 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
18% slightly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

120th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 August

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 7 9700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Core i5-14400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400F has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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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