AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Core i5-14600K

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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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 246.84

$ 37.95 slightly less expensive

$ 284.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points

12025 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points

14272 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points

11307 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points

11156 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points

10606 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points

303.53 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19509 points

24491 points

25% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points

16100 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2838 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.50 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.3 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% 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

89th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14600K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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