Intel Core i9-14900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

$ 473.14
$ 194.66 significantly less expensive
$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13852 points
16302 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14835 points
1% slightly better gaming score
14590 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13629 points
16961 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13729 points
17329 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12965 points
17230 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

316.49 points
643.21 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18063 points
22134 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2847 points
3395 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
4.3 GHz
114% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.8 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed
5.7 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
16 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

34th of 1,089
14th of 1,089

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

Core i9-14900F vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster than the Core i9-14900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-14900F has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. Despite this, the Core i9-14900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900F.

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

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