AMD Ryzen 5 8600G vs Intel Core i5-14450HX

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7604 points
3% slightly better overall score
7353 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10588 points
7% slightly better gaming score
9822 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6642 points
0.12% slightly better multitasking score
6634 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6422 points
6496 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

173.75 points
197.64 points
13% slightly higher Blender score

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
81% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

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

160th of 1,089
171st 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
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 8600G vs Core i5-14450HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the Core i5-14450HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14450HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14450HX has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14450HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-14450HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8600G.

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

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