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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4180 points
16106 points
285% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
15771 points
178% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
16300 points
337% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
16541 points
358% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
506.50 points
404% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
41193 points
340% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
20147 points
252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
3053 points
88% 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

2.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed

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

422nd of 1,089
16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i9-14900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K 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 i9-14900K 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. The Core i9-14900K 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.

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