AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i7-14700F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700F beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. 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 i7-14700F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i7-14700F has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. 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 i7-14700F. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Core i7-14700F 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 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.