AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
10% slightly better overall score
10176 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
10959 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
9972 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
10002 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
307.50 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
13460 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2505 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
14% slightly more threads
28

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
28 MiB
250% 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

66th of 1,089
82nd 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
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Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-14700HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700HX has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than the Core i7-14700HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700HX.

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

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