Intel Core i9-14900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Core i9-14900HX vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is faster than the Core i9-14900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in all gaming tests too.

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 9900X3D that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D 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.