AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i7-14700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Ryzen 9 7900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700K.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.