Intel Core i9-14900K vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

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

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Intel Core i9-14900KF

Price

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$ 438.99

$ 408.49

$ 30.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16106 points

2% slightly better overall score

15773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points

2% slightly better gaming score

15321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

16003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

16246 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points

0.45% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

16795 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points

508.28 points

0.35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points

20340 points

0.96% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points

3072 points

0.62% 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

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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

18th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

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 i9-14900KF specs and performance

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-14900KF have the same clock speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.