Intel Core i9-14900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i9-14900K vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 9 8940HX. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8940HX. 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 8940HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i9-14900K also has significantly 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.