AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Ryzen 9 7945HX3D vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 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 7945HX3D 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14600K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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 7945HX3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.