Intel Core i7-14700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more threads than the Core i7-14700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700K.

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