AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-14700

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-14700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i7-14700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than the Core i7-14700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700.

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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.