Intel Core i7-14700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Compare Intel 20 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Price

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$ 301.43

$ 498.56 significantly less expensive

$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13879 points

3% slightly better overall score

13385 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14674 points

11% slightly better gaming score

13203 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13663 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

13450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13676 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

13474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

294.87 points

398.41 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16387 points

17560 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2697 points

2866 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

4.40 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

Identical

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

128 MiB

287% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 1,089

38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR5

Core i7-14700F vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Core i7-14700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700F.

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