Intel Core i5-14500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9533 points

7% slightly better overall score

8895 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12007 points

10% slightly better gaming score

10846 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8804 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

8278 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8680 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

8127 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i5-14500 and the Ryzen 9 8945H? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

248.96 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

224.72 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

4.00 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

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

115th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 9 8945H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H 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 9 8945H. 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.