AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Core i5-14400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i5-14400F also has slightly 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.