AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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
$ 64.67 significantly less expensive
$ 199.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
11287 points
80% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points
13345 points
60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points
10649 points
90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points
10530 points
93% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points
10627 points
87% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
309.52 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points
15636 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points
2781 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.3 GHz
20% 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
8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089
63rd 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
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i5-14600KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600KF beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. 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 i5-14600KF has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Core i5-14600KF has 14 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 i5-14600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600KF.

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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