AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i9-14900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 314.49
$ 158.65 significantly less expensive
$ 473.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points
13852 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points
14835 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points
13629 points
0.34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points
13729 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points
12965 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
316.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points
18063 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2847 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
134% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
5.8 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

24
20% slightly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% 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

36th 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

2022 September
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i9-14900F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900F 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Indeed, the Core i9-14900F has 24 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900F.

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.

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