Intel Core i9-14900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i9-14900HX vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8940HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i9-14900HX also has significantly 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.