Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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

$ 248.68
$ 206.37 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9533 points
10982 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12007 points
13108 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8804 points
10252 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8680 points
10031 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9078 points
10082 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

248.96 points
325.43 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12760 points
18346 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2520 points
3336 points
32% 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
4.7 GHz
80% 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
96 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

99th of 1,089
70th 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 November

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 9800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is faster 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 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly 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.

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