AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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

8215 points

8658 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

11300 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7390 points

7821 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7189 points

7610 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5466 points

7382 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.47 points

202.91 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10324 points

10690 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2258 points

2329 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

139th of 1,089

119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core i5-14400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400 beats the Ryzen 7 7840U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840U. 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 7840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.