AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i5-14500

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9048 points
9533 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points
12007 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points
8804 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points
8680 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7779 points
9078 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points
248.96 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points
12760 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points
2520 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
53% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 1,089
99th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i5-14500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i5-14500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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