AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Ryzen 9 7900 vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14650HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14650HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14650HX.

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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.