AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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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$ 386.14

$ 52.85 slightly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points

16106 points

60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points

15771 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points

16300 points

74% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points

16541 points

80% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8010 points

16871 points

110% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points

506.50 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18086 points

41193 points

127% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points

20147 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points

3053 points

12% slightly 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

4.20 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Core i9-14900K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900K performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900K. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900K.

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 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.