AMD Ryzen 5 8600G 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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Price

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$ 222.50
$ 192.00
$ 30.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7604 points
8658 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10588 points
11300 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6642 points
7821 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6422 points
7610 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6178 points
7382 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

173.75 points
202.91 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10810 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10690 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2486 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2329 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.35 GHz
73% significantly 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

2
Identical
2

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

161st 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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 8600G vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14400 performs better than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8600G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8600G. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 8600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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