AMD Ryzen 5 7600 vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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

$ 190.07
$ 94.72 significantly less expensive
$ 284.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8046 points
12025 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10893 points
14272 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7125 points
11307 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6898 points
11156 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6614 points
10606 points
60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

199.23 points
303.53 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12735 points
24491 points
92% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12203 points
16100 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2751 points
2838 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.3 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
20 MiB
233% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

147th of 1,089
53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 7600 vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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