AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700F

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 32.43 slightly less expensive

$ 301.43

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

13879 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

14674 points

47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

13663 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

13676 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

12064 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

294.87 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

16387 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2697 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

28 MiB

366% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

93% significantly more L3 cache

33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

33rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-14700F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700F performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700F. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.