AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10739 points

5% slightly better overall score

10176 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12739 points

16% slightly better gaming score

10959 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10048 points

0.76% slightly better multitasking score

9972 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9834 points

10002 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points

307.50 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

13460 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.5 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

28 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33 MiB

3% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089

82nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core i7-14700HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Core i7-14700HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.