Intel Core i5-4690K vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 161.43
$ 247.06 significantly less expensive
$ 408.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2483 points
15773 points
535% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points
15321 points
231% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1885 points
16003 points
748% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1808 points
16246 points
798% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2127 points
16795 points
689% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.71 points
508.28 points
864% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3649 points
20340 points
457% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1305 points
3072 points
135% 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

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

632nd of 1,089
18th 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
2023 November

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 i5-4690K vs Core i9-14900KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KF beats the Core i5-4690K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4690K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4690K. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has 24 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-4690K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4690K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4690K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KF.

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. For instance, the Core i5-4690K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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