AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-14600KF benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14600KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600KF.

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