AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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Intel Core i5-14400F

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 123.70 significantly less expensive

$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

8601 points

68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

11043 points

59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

7824 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

7622 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

7397 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

193.46 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

11074 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

2320 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

9.5 MiB

216% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-14400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X 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 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.