AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points

10999 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points

11453 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points

10950 points

95% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points

11076 points

103% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points

12548 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points

340.82 points

125% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points

15507 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points

2661 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 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

Identical

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

69th 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

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. The Core i9-14900HX 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.