Intel Core i5-14600T vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i5-14600T vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Core i5-14600T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14600T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-14600T has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600T. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600T. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-14600T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.