Intel Core i7-14700HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Core i7-14700HX vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700HX.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.