Intel Core i5-14600K 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

$ 284.79
$ 250.17
$ 34.62 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12025 points
27% slightly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14272 points
26% slightly better gaming score
11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11307 points
28% slightly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11156 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10606 points
34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7868 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

303.53 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16100 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12976 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2838 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2647 points

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

3.5 GHz
4.10 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
5 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

20 MiB
150% 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

53rd 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

2023 November
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-14600K vs Ryzen 7 8700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700F. The Core i5-14600K 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 i5-14600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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