Intel Core i5-14400F vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 223.69
$ 97.39 significantly less expensive
$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8601 points
10175 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11043 points
26% slightly better gaming score
8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7824 points
10760 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7622 points
11072 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7397 points
11130 points
50% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

193.46 points
367.23 points
89% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
16
60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4.8 GHz
2% 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
64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

120th of 1,089
83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i5-14400F vs Ryzen 9 5900XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT is faster than the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-14400F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 i5-14400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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