AMD Ryzen 7 8700G vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 273.07

$ 11.72 slightly less expensive

$ 284.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9769 points

12025 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11596 points

14272 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9145 points

11307 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8951 points

11156 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7917 points

10606 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

245.43 points

303.53 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13530 points

16100 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2650 points

2838 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

95th of 1,089

53rd 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

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 8700G vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700G 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 8700G has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700G 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 info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700G. The Core i5-14600K also has significantly 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 8700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.