AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i7-14700T

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i7-14700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700T beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700T. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700T.

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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.