AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i9-14900KS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Ryzen 9 5900X in overall performance. 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 i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900KS.

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