AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i7-14700

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i7-14700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Core i7-14700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X that has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has more threads than the Core i7-14700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700.

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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.