Intel Core i9-14900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 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
15% slightly better overall score
14004 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points
27% slightly better gaming score
12364 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
14599 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
14860 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16871 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
13984 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
475.58 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

41193 points
19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
34613 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

20147 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
16083 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3053 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2764 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

16th of 1,089
31st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Ryzen 9

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
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 9 7945HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900K performs better than the Ryzen 9 7945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7945HX has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900K.

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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