Intel Core i7-14700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i7-14700 vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Core i7-14700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700.

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 Core i7-14700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.