AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i7-14700HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H. The Core i7-14700HX also has significantly 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.