Intel Core i9-14900K vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs Intel 24 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

16106 points
46% significantly better overall score
10999 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points
37% slightly better gaming score
11453 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points
48% significantly better multitasking score
10950 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score
11076 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points
34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
12548 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
340.82 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
15507 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2661 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
Identical
24

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

192 GiB
Identical
192 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
69th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i9-14900K vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical 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.

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