AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 135.32
$ 88.37 significantly less expensive
$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
8601 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points
11043 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points
7824 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points
7622 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points
7397 points
30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
193.46 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points
11074 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points
2320 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
6% 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
9.5 MiB
216% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089
120th 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
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Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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