AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Core i7-14650HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14650HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.