AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 676.99
$ 223.69
$ 453.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points
67% significantly better overall score
8601 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points
20% slightly better gaming score
11043 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points
89% significantly better multitasking score
7824 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points
96% significantly better heavy workload score
7622 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points
94% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
177% significantly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11074 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2320 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
68% significantly more L2 cache
9.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
540% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089
120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core i5-14400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Core i5-14400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14400F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-14400F has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14400F. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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