Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 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

$ 248.68
$ 1.49 slightly less expensive
$ 250.17

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9533 points
1% slightly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12007 points
6% slightly better gaming score
11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8804 points
0.16% slightly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8680 points
0.98% slightly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9078 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7868 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

248.96 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12760 points
12976 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points
2647 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.10 GHz
57% significantly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

99th of 1,089
101st 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 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 7 8700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8700F performs better than the Core i5-14500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500 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 8700F. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8700F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F. The Core i5-14500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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