AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.99
$ 298.00 significantly less expensive
$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
16106 points
162% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
15771 points
90% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
16300 points
199% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
16541 points
213% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
16871 points
205% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
506.50 points
245% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
41193 points
290% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
20147 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
3053 points
58% significantly 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

3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

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

16 MiB
36 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i9-14900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900K. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core i9-14900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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