AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-14700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700F is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Both the Ryzen 5 5500U and Core i7-14700F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i7-14700F 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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.