Intel Core i7-14700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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Price

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$ 398.96
$ 268.84 significantly less expensive
$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12671 points
16302 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points
14590 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12377 points
16961 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12390 points
17329 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12400 points
17230 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.94 points
643.21 points
118% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15696 points
22134 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2720 points
3395 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
25% slightly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
32
14% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
4.3 GHz
104% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5.7 GHz
5% 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
75% significantly more L2 cache
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB
128 MiB
287% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

46th of 1,092
14th 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
2025 March

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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