Intel Core i9-13900KF vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

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
$ 408.49
$ 142.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17180 points
8% slightly better overall score
15773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16331 points
6% slightly better gaming score
15321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17547 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
16003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17852 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
16246 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16391 points
16795 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

526.86 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
508.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19500 points
20340 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2919 points
3072 points
5% 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
18th 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
-

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KF 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900KF. 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 i9-13900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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