AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 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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$ 195.30

$ 192.00

$ 3.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8673 points

0.17% slightly better overall score

8658 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12393 points

9% slightly better gaming score

11300 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7498 points

7821 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7245 points

7610 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7587 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7382 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

202.91 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14957 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10690 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3338 points

43% significantly 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

3.9 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

14% 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

32 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,089

119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Core i5-14400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Core i5-14400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400 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 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400.

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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.