AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-14700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9048 points

11732 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points

13191 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points

11333 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points

11315 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7779 points

12400 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points

293.94 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points

15696 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points

2720 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

28 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33 MiB

106% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th 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 April

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-14700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better 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 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-14700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.