AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Core i7-14700HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Ryzen 5 7600X in overall performance. 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 i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Core i7-14700HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.