AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core i5-14600K — Specifications, performance, tests

Differences
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Differences

Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Report a bug

Higher clock speed

Around 34% better clock speed

4.7 GHz 3.50 GHz
Lower stated TDP / base power

Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

120 W 125 W

Reasons to consider
Intel Core i5-14600K

Report a bug

More number of cores

6 more cores

14 8
Higher turbo clock speed

Around 2 % higher specified turbo frequency

5.30 GHz 5.2 GHz

Specifications

Technical data

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Intel Core i5-14600K

CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

Family

Ryzen Intel Core i (14th Gen)
Form Factor

Desktops / Boxed Processor -
Segment

Desktop Desktop
Series

Ryzen 9000 Series -

CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

Base Frequency

4.7 GHz 3.5 GHz
CPU Cores

8 14
CPU Threads

16 20
Max. Boost Clock

5.2 GHz -
Overclocking

Yes -
Turbo Frequency (1 Core)

5.2 GHz 5.3 GHz
E-core Base Clock

- 2.6 GHz
E-core Max Turbo

- 4 GHz
Efficient Cores

- 8
P-core Base Clock

- 3.5 GHz
P-core Max Turbo

- 5.3 GHz
Performance Cores

- 6

IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

GPU Frequency

2200 MHz 300 MHz
GPU name

AMD Radeon Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 770
Graphics Cores

2 -
Execution units

- 32
GPU Turbo

- 1550 MHz

Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-14600K and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

Memory channels

2 2
Memory type

DDR5 DDR5-5600 / DDR4-3200
PCIe

PCIe 5.0 -
Max. Memory

- 192 GB

Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Intel Core i5-14600K Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Default TDP

120 W -
Maximum Operating Temperature

95 °C -
TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)

120 W 125 W
TDP (PL2)

- 181 W

Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Intel Core i5-14600K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

Architecture

Zen 5 Raptor Lake
Codename

Granite Ridge AM5 -
I/O die process

TSMC 6nm FinFET -
L2-Cache

8 MB 20 MB
L3-Cache

96 MB 24 MB
Release date

2024-11-07 Q4/2023
Socket

AM5 FCLGA1700
Technology

TSMC 4nm FinFET Intel 7
Intel Smart Cache

- 24 MB

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 11

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settings	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Intel Core i5-14600K	Result difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux	387.601609 samples/min Submissions: 35	338.678074 samples/min Submissions: 8	-12.6 %
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows	366.580728 samples/min Submissions: 169	317.243316 samples/min Submissions: 24	-13.5 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux	395.565005 samples/min Submissions: 25	338.239757 samples/min Submissions: 12	-14.5 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows	370.912589 samples/min Submissions: 163	311.979665 samples/min Submissions: 7	-15.9 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows	367.535688 samples/min Submissions: 48	322.758515 samples/min Submissions: 17	-12.2 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux	391.167316 samples/min Submissions: 95	300.096793 samples/min Submissions: 8	-23.3 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows	333.029807 samples/min Submissions: 989	299.897209 samples/min Submissions: 93	-9.9 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows	320.502075 samples/min Submissions: 444	301.862874 samples/min Submissions: 47	-5.8 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows	320.757236 samples/min Submissions: 596	297.597714 samples/min Submissions: 32	-7.2 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows	323.517057 samples/min Submissions: 160	293.011509 samples/min Submissions: 48	-9.4 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows	333.805259 samples/min Submissions: 5	315.487077 samples/min Submissions: 40	-5.5 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 405.562455 samples/min
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 377.766613 samples/min
Blender 5.0.0 / CPU / Windows 325.661573 samples/min
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Linux 280.833242 samples/min

Intel Core i5-14600K

Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 303.901316 samples/min

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model	Test	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench 2024 / multi-core	1392 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench 2024 / single-core	122 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R15 / multi-core	3647 points
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R15 / multi-core	3640 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R15 / single-core	328 points
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R15 / single-core	297 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R20 / multi-core	9371 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R20 / multi-core	9057 points
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R20 / single-core	818 points
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R20 / single-core	790 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R23 / multi-core	24491 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R23 / multi-core	23230 points
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	Cinebench R23 / single-core	2080 points
Intel Core i5-14600K	Cinebench R23 / single-core	2064 points	Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090 System RAM: 32 GB

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D	11922.930179 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows System RAM: 32 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / B650E MAX GAMING WIFI Duration: 83.872 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 20 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core i5-14600K	6351.182273 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 20 threads / windows System RAM: 32 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B760M GAMING X AX Duration: 157.451 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.