Intel Core i5-14600KF vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX

Core i5-14600KF vs Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX beats the Core i5-14600KF in overall performance. 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 Threadripper 2990WX has significantly more cores with 32 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. Also, the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600KF. The Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 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 i5-14600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.