Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Core i5-4300U vs Core i9-14900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K beats the Core i5-4300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i5-4300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300U. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-4300U. The Core i9-14900K 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.