AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Ryzen 9 7950X vs Core i7-14700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X beats the Core i7-14700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700F has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has more threads than the Core i7-14700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X 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 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.