AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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

$ 399.99
$ 223.69
$ 176.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
7% slightly better overall score
8601 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
11043 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
7824 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
7622 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
46% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
11074 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2320 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
Identical
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

64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th 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

2019 November
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 3950X vs Core i5-14400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-14400F. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-14400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14400F.

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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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