AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-14700HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-14700HX 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.