AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14400

Price

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$ 155.73

$ 36.27 slightly less expensive

$ 192.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5521 points

8658 points

56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points

11300 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points

7821 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points

7610 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5215 points

7382 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points

202.91 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points

10690 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2329 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

9.5 MiB

58% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089

119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400 beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.