Intel Core i9-14900 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Price

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$ 567.57

$ 1.48 slightly less expensive

$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14922 points

15159 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13579 points

14568 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

15426 points

0.53% slightly better multitasking score

15345 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

15717 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

15406 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15510 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

13700 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

316.59 points

466.69 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16873 points

20191 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2796 points

3294 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

4.4 GHz

120% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

5.5 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB

128 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 1,114

22nd of 1,114

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-14900 vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D performs better than the Core i9-14900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D 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.