Intel Core i7-14700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

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Price

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$ 398.96
$ 369.00
$ 29.96 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12671 points
13840 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points
14073 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12377 points
13777 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12390 points
13778 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12400 points
13920 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.94 points
462.53 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15696 points
19790 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2720 points
3339 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
66% significantly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
16% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
4.4 GHz
109% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5.6 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB
64 MiB
93% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

46th of 1,092
35th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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