AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-14400F has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.