AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i9-14900

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 135.32
$ 432.25 significantly less expensive
$ 567.57

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
14922 points
138% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points
13579 points
62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points
15426 points
175% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points
15717 points
189% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points
15510 points
173% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
316.59 points
109% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points
16873 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points
2796 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
24
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.8 GHz
31% 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
32 MiB
966% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
36 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089
24th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core i9 (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
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i9-14900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. The Core i9-14900 also has slightly 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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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