Intel Core i9-14900K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i9-14900K vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-14600K that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900K. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600K. The Core i9-14900K 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 i9-14900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.