AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 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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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 284.79

$ 2.45 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

12025 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

14272 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

11307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

11156 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

10606 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

303.53 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

24491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

16100 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2838 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.3 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

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

66th 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

2020 May

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 5950X vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.