Intel Core i7-14700HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-14700HX vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 9 8940HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i7-14700HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.