AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Core i7-14700F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7945HX is faster than the Core i7-14700F. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX that has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has more threads than the Core i7-14700F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700F.

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 7945HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.