AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i9-14900HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U 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 5600U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. The Core i9-14900HX 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.