Intel Core i9-14900K vs Intel Core i9-13900KS

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-13900KS

Price

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$ 438.99

$ 150.00 significantly less expensive

$ 588.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16106 points

17026 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points

16296 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points

17346 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points

17634 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points

0.85% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

16728 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points

524.43 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points

21389 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points

3124 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB

Identical

36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

16th of 1,089

9th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)

13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-14900K vs Core i9-13900KS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13900KS performs better than the Core i9-14900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-13900KS are identical in this regard. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 i9-14900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.