AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-14600K

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
$ 284.79
$ 115.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
12025 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
14272 points
91% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
11307 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
11156 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
10606 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
303.53 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
16100 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2838 points
64% 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
Identical
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089
53rd 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
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

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 i5-14600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-14600K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-14600K has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 3950X and Core i5-14600K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K 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 i5-14600K.

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

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