AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Ryzen 7 9700X vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14650HX in all gaming tests too.

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 7 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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 7 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.