AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core i5-14400F

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 i5-14400F

Price

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$ 195.30

$ 28.39 slightly less expensive

$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8673 points

0.84% slightly better overall score

8601 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12393 points

12% slightly better gaming score

11043 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7498 points

7824 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7245 points

7622 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

7397 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

193.46 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14957 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

11074 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3338 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2320 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

120th 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 i5-14400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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