AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 58.40
$ 190.28 significantly less expensive
$ 248.68

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
9533 points
112% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
12007 points
98% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
8804 points
120% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
8680 points
124% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points
9078 points
184% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
248.96 points
147% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
12760 points
174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
2520 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
11.5 MiB
283% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-14500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. The Core i5-14500 also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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