AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 399.99
$ 248.68
$ 151.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
9533 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
12007 points
60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
8804 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
8680 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9078 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
248.96 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
12760 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2520 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
14% slightly more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089
99th 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
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i5-14500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14500 performs better than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-14500 that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14500.

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

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