AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i5-14400

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Core i5-14400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400.

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 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.