Intel Core i9-14900 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX

Core i9-14900 vs Ryzen 9 7940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900 beats the Ryzen 9 7940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Indeed, the Core i9-14900 has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7940HX. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900.

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 i9-14900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.