AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600K has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14600K.

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 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.