Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 7 7840H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14500 beats the Ryzen 7 7840H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840H. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14500 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Core i5-14500 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 i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.