Intel Core i9-14900KS vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

$ 592.49
$ 455.05
$ 137.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17932 points
63% significantly better overall score
10982 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

17174 points
31% slightly better gaming score
13108 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18250 points
78% significantly better multitasking score
10252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18506 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score
10031 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16117 points
59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
10082 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

515.80 points
58% significantly higher Blender score
325.43 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

23144 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
18346 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3237 points
3336 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
200% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4.7 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

6.2 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

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
96 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

3rd of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i9 (14th gen)
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 November

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 i9-14900KS vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900KS.

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. For instance, the Core i9-14900KS has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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