AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9257 points
7% slightly better overall score
8601 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11296 points
2% slightly better gaming score
11043 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8584 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
7824 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
7622 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7691 points
3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7397 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.59 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
193.46 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11517 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11074 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2372 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2320 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
10% 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

8 MiB
9.5 MiB
18% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th 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

-
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
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Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core i5-14400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HS beats the Core i5-14400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS 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 8945HS. 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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