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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16106 points
50% significantly better overall score
10700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15771 points
46% significantly better gaming score
10758 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16300 points
51% significantly better multitasking score
10731 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16541 points
52% significantly better heavy workload score
10842 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

506.50 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
458.15 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
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
350% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

16th of 1,092
76th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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