Intel Core i9-10900KF vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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

$ 439.00
$ 248.68
$ 190.32 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8768 points
9533 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9745 points
12007 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8418 points
8804 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8304 points
8680 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8953 points
9078 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.11 points
248.96 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9168 points
12760 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points
2520 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
14
40% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
Identical
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 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

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
11.5 MiB
360% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
24 MiB
20% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

117th of 1,089
99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-10900KF vs Core i5-14500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14500 is faster than the Core i9-10900KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900KF in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14500 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-10900KF. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900KF. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF. The Core i5-14500 also has slightly 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 i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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