Intel Core i7-14700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

$ 334.99
$ 177.00
$ 157.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16063 points
87% significantly better overall score
8583 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16190 points
39% slightly better gaming score
11637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16059 points
111% significantly better multitasking score
7604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16174 points
119% significantly better heavy workload score
7365 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14813 points
111% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6996 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

445.12 points
113% significantly higher Blender score
208.44 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

35892 points
131% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
15510 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18777 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12876 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2921 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2889 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

3.4 GHz
4.70 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
5.3 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
3% slightly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

17th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 5 7600X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Core i7-14700K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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