AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i9-14900KS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Also, the Core i9-14900KS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i9-14900KS also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.