Intel Core i7-14700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700K performs better than the Ryzen 9 7900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700K.

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