AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

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

$ 287.24
$ 199.99
$ 87.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
11287 points
0.83% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
13345 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
10649 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
10530 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
10627 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
309.52 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
15636 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2781 points
26% slightly 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

3.4 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
Identical
8 MiB

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
63rd 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
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Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i5-14600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i5-14600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-14600KF that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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