AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 219.80
$ 3.89 slightly less expensive
$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
8601 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
11043 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
7824 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
7622 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
11074 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
2320 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
Identical
4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9.5 MiB
137% 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

151st of 1,089
120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400F beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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