AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-14700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700F performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700F. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700F.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.