Intel Core i7-14700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 9 9900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X beats the Core i7-14700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700K. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X 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.