Intel Core i9-13900KF 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 551.08
$ 438.99
$ 112.09 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17180 points
6% slightly better overall score
16106 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16331 points
3% slightly better gaming score
15771 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17547 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
16300 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17852 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
16541 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16391 points
16871 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

526.86 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
506.50 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19500 points
20147 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2919 points
3053 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
Identical
24

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

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

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

8th of 1,089
16th of 1,089

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
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i9-13900KF vs Core i9-14900K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Core i9-13900KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900KF in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900KF. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-13900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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