Intel Core i9-14900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

15773 points
125% significantly better overall score
7004 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15321 points
50% significantly better gaming score
10197 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16003 points
167% significantly better multitasking score
5978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16246 points
182% significantly better heavy workload score
5757 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16795 points
183% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5932 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

508.28 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
192.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
300% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
433% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4.10 GHz
28% 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
433% significantly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
96 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

18th of 1,120
205th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Core i9-14900KF vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KF. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900KF.

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 i9-14900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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