Core i5-14500 vs Ryzen 7 8700G

Gaming speed, cores and clocks

The Core i5-14500 and the Ryzen 7 8700G are within a few percent of each other for gaming. In a game, you will not see the difference.

The Core i5-14500 has 14 cores and 20 threads, and the Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores and 16 threads. The extra cores of the Core i5-14500 help with video editing, streaming while you play and heavy multitasking more than with the game itself. Boost clocks are 5 GHz and 5.1 GHz.

Platform, power and price

The Core i5-14500 uses the LGA1700 socket and the Ryzen 7 8700G uses AM5, so they need different motherboards, and often different memory. When you compare prices, count the board as well as the chip.

Rated power is 65 W for the first and 65 W for the second. That is close enough that cooling needs will be similar.

At launch the Core i5-14500 cost $232 and the Ryzen 7 8700G $329, which gives 30.2 and 21.3 points of gaming performance per $100. Today's prices will differ.

Which graphics cards each one can feed, and which to buy

At 1080p the Core i5-14500 can feed a card up to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super before it holds the card back by more than 10 percent. The Ryzen 7 8700G reaches the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. Both chips are in the same range for graphics card pairing.

Choose the Core i5-14500 if you want the faster gaming chip and the same or more cores. Choose the Ryzen 7 8700G if you would rather spend the difference on a graphics card, which does more for frame rates in most games.