AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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

$ 276.36
$ 248.68
$ 27.68 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10739 points
12% slightly better overall score
9533 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12739 points
6% slightly better gaming score
12007 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10048 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
8804 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9834 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
8680 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points
9078 points
6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
248.96 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12760 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2520 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089
99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core i5-14500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14500.

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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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