Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 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

$ 399.00
$ 192.00
$ 207.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6827 points
8658 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8465 points
11300 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6279 points
7821 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6130 points
7610 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7066 points
7382 points
4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

176.47 points
202.91 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8172 points
10690 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points
2329 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 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 MiB
9.5 MiB
374% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 1,089
119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400 is faster than the Core i9-9900KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KF has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. The Core i5-14400 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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