AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

$ 389.99
$ 223.69
$ 166.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points
8601 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points
11043 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
7824 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
7622 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points
11074 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points
2320 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
Identical
4.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
9.5 MiB
58% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089
120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i5-14400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14400F. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-14400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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