AMD Ryzen 5 5500 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 74.99
$ 148.70 significantly less expensive
$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5931 points
8601 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
11043 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
7824 points
48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
7622 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5451 points
7397 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
193.46 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points
11074 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points
2320 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

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

4.2 GHz
4.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th 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

2022 April
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 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 5500. The Core i5-14400F also has slightly 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 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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