Intel Core i7-14700HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Core i7-14700HX vs Ryzen 7 260 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 260. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 260 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 260 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 260. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 260 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 260. The Core i7-14700HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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