Intel Core i9-14900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Core i9-14900HX vs Ryzen 9 8945HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX beats the Ryzen 9 8945HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HS 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 Ryzen 9 8945HS. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 8945HS. 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.