AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i5-14500T

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5931 points

8117 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

10172 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

7544 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

7468 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points

9642 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points

2371 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

111% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.8 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

256th of 1,089

146th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i5-14500T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14500T 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500T. Despite this, the Core i5-14500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Core i5-14500T also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.