Intel Core i5-14600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Core i5-14600KF vs Ryzen 9 9900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X beats the Core i5-14600KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14600KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600KF has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X has more threads than the Core i5-14600KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600KF. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600KF. The Ryzen 9 9900X 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.