AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i7-14700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Ryzen 9 3900XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700K.

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 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.