AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14400

Price

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$ 314.49

$ 192.00

$ 122.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points

56% significantly better overall score

8658 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points

19% slightly better gaming score

11300 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

7821 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points

78% significantly better heavy workload score

7610 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points

73% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7382 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

202.91 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10690 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2329 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

87% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

26% slightly more L2 cache

9.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

36th of 1,089

119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i5-14400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i5-14400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14400. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.