AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i5-14500

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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Intel Core i5-14500

Price

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$ 177.00

$ 71.68 significantly less expensive

$ 248.68

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8583 points

9533 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

12007 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

8804 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

8680 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6996 points

9078 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

248.96 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12876 points

0.91% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

12760 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2889 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2520 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz

80% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

11.5 MiB

91% 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

121st of 1,089

99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Core i5-14500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14500 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14500.

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