AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 386.14
$ 284.79
$ 101.35 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points
12025 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points
14272 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points
11307 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points
11156 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8010 points
10606 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points
303.53 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18086 points
24491 points
35% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points
16100 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points
2838 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.3 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

96 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th 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

2023 April
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Core i5-14600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K 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 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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