Intel Core i5-4460 vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2038 points
10999 points
439% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3756 points
11453 points
204% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points
10950 points
603% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points
11076 points
641% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2725 points
12548 points
360% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.05 points
340.82 points
730% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2954 points
15507 points
424% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1068 points
2661 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
24
499% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
32
700% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
5.8 GHz
70% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
192 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
32 MiB
3100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
36 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

709th of 1,089
69th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4460 vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900HX is faster than the Core i5-4460. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i5-4460 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4460. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4460 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The Core i9-14900HX 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. For instance, the Core i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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