AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i9-14900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24
$ 185.90 significantly less expensive
$ 473.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
13852 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
14835 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
13629 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
13729 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
12965 points
9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
316.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
18063 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2847 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.8 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089
34th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core i9 (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 i9-14900F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900F 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 i9-14900F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Indeed, the Core i9-14900F has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. Despite this, the Core i9-14900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900F.

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.

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