Intel Core i7-14700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i7-14700F vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700F is faster than the Ryzen 9 7900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F 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 i7-14700F.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-14700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.