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

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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Intel Core i9-14900KS

Price

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$ 438.99

$ 153.50 significantly less expensive

$ 592.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16106 points

17932 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points

17174 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points

18250 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points

18506 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

16117 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points

515.80 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points

23144 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points

3237 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

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

3rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-14900K vs Core i9-14900KS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-14900K has more threads. Both the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-14900KS 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.