Intel Core i9-14900HX vs Intel Core i5-14500

Core i9-14900HX vs Core i5-14500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-14500. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has 24 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-14500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14500. 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. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.