AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 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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$ 455.05

$ 284.79

$ 170.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10982 points

12025 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points

14272 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points

11307 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points

11156 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points

10606 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

303.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18346 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16100 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3336 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2838 points

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

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.3 GHz

1% 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

96 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November

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 9800X3D vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14600K performs better than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.