Intel Core i9-14900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 438.99
$ 276.36
$ 162.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16106 points
49% significantly better overall score
10741 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points
23% slightly better gaming score
12741 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points
62% significantly better multitasking score
10051 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points
68% significantly better heavy workload score
9837 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points
97% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
8548 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points
90% significantly higher Blender score
266.15 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

41193 points
119% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
18760 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
14835 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2879 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
200% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.80 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

16th of 1,089
74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i9-14900K vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900K performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900K. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. The Core i9-14900K also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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