AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D vs Intel Core i3-14100F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i3 (14th gen) 4 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

5702 points
5870 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7868 points
9719 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4995 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
4712 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4828 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
4503 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.95 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
109.81 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.00 GHz
3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.7 GHz
17% 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
5 MiB
66% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

290th of 1,121
277th of 1,121

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series
Core i3 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 June
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Ryzen 5 5500X3D vs Core i3-14100F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-14100F performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-14100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-14100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-14100F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Also, the Core i3-14100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-14100F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-14100F.

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 5500X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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