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

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i7-14700KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700KF is faster than the Ryzen 9 7900X. 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 i7-14700KF 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700KF. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700KF.

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