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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 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

6413 points

10176 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

10959 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

9972 points

75% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

10002 points

82% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

307.50 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

13460 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2505 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

28 MiB

833% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33 MiB

3% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

82nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 February

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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 5600X. The Core i7-14700HX 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.