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

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. 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 i7-14700K has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than the Core i7-14700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Also, 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 8940HX. The Core i7-14700K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.