AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600K 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 i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U. Also, 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 7840U. The Core i5-14600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.