AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14650HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14650HX.

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 Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.