Intel Core i9-13900K vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

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$ 548.09

$ 438.99

$ 109.10 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16294 points

0.91% slightly better overall score

16147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15822 points

15829 points

0.04% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16535 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

16335 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16792 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

16571 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16398 points

16871 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

522.08 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

506.50 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

40103 points

41193 points

2% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19967 points

20147 points

0.90% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2985 points

3053 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB

Identical

36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

13th of 1,118

16th of 1,118

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i9

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-13900K vs Core i9-14900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900K is faster than the Core i9-14900K. Despite this, the Core i9-14900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900K. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 i9-13900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.