Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14500 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14500.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.