Intel Core i9-14900HX vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Core i9-14900HX vs Core i7-14650HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i7-14650HX. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i7-14650HX. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14650HX. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-14900HX and Core i7-14650HX are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-14650HX. The Core i9-14900HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.