Intel Core i9-14900HX vs AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10999 points
11227 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11453 points
12120 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10950 points
11094 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11076 points
11316 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

340.82 points
458.55 points
34% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

69th of 1,089
65th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
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Core i9-14900HX vs RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 performs better 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 AI MAX+ 395 that has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395. Despite this, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900HX.

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.

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