Intel Core i7-14700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 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

$ 301.43
$ 165.69
$ 135.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13879 points
79% significantly better overall score
7722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14674 points
41% slightly better gaming score
10390 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13663 points
99% significantly better multitasking score
6857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13676 points
106% significantly better heavy workload score
6632 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12064 points
96% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6145 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

294.87 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
179.45 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
233% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
4.2 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB
366% significantly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB
106% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i7-14700F vs Ryzen 5 8400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700F is faster than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F. The Core i7-14700F 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 i7-14700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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