AMD Ryzen 7 8700G vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 273.07
$ 192.00
$ 81.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9769 points
12% slightly better overall score
8658 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11596 points
2% slightly better gaming score
11300 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9145 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
7821 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8951 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
7610 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7917 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7382 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

245.43 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
202.91 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13530 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10690 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2650 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2329 points

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

4.2 GHz
68% significantly 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

2
Identical
2

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

95th of 1,089
119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 8700G vs Core i5-14400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8700G is faster than the Core i5-14400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400 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 8700G has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700G. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly 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 8700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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