AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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 i9-14900

Price

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$ 455.05

$ 112.52 slightly less expensive

$ 567.57

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10982 points

14922 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points

13579 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points

15426 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points

15717 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points

15510 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

316.59 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18346 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16873 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3336 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2796 points

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

4.7 GHz

134% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

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

70th of 1,089

24th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Core i9-14900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900 is faster than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900.

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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.