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

Core i9-14900HX vs Ryzen 9 8945HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Core i9-14900HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX that has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. 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 Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900HX.

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