AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Core i7-14700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700

Price

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$ 799.99

$ 398.96

$ 401.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13385 points

14% slightly better overall score

11732 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13203 points

0.09% slightly better gaming score

13191 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13450 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

11333 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13474 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

11315 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.41 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

293.94 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17560 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

15696 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2866 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2720 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.40 GHz

109% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

28 MiB

133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB

287% significantly more L3 cache

33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,089

55th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Core i7-14700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Core i7-14700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700.

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.