Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

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$ 350.22

$ 88.77 slightly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points

16106 points

139% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points

15771 points

91% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points

16300 points

162% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points

16541 points

172% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7038 points

16871 points

139% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

506.50 points

188% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12397 points

41193 points

232% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

20147 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

3053 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

32 MiB

1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

36 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-9900K vs Core i9-14900K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900K performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K 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 Core i9-9900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900K. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900K has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.