AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Intel Core i9-14900

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 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

14004 points
14922 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12364 points
13579 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14599 points
15426 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14860 points
15717 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

13984 points
15510 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

475.58 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
316.59 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16083 points
16873 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2764 points
2796 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5.8 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 1,089
24th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Core i9 (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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Core i9-14900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900 beats the Ryzen 9 7945HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7945HX has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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