AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400F beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.