Intel Core i5-14600K vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX

Compare Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 284.79
$ 611.52 significantly less expensive
$ 896.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12346 points
12933 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14506 points
35% slightly better gaming score
10680 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11650 points
13704 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11502 points
13985 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

303.53 points
428.80 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16100 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
15788 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2838 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2123 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
16
14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
8
300% significantly more memory channels

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
64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

50th of 1,125
42nd of 1,125

Family

The product line

Core i5 (14th gen)
Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-14600K vs Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14600K. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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 i5-14600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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