Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly 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 9 8940HX. The Core i5-14500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.