AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8985 points
3% slightly better overall score
8658 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10717 points
11300 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8377 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
7821 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8167 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
7610 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7434 points
0.70% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7382 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.18 points
202.91 points
17% slightly higher Blender 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

3.80 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
9.5 MiB
18% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 1,089
119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Ryzen 7 7840H vs Core i5-14400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7840H beats the Core i5-14400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840H. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 7840H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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