Intel Core i5-14600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

Core i5-14600KF vs Ryzen 9 7945HX3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is faster than the Core i5-14600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-14600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-14600KF that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14600KF. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 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 i5-14600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.