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

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 447.36
$ 357.07
$ 90.29 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points
10% slightly better overall score
15150 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points
15322 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
15151 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
15281 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
14250 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
442.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points
0.66% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
19170 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points
0.51% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2961 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
14% slightly more threads
28

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.5 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed
5.6 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

24
20% slightly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
28 MiB
75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
93% significantly more L3 cache
33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,089
22nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2023 November

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 7950X vs Core i7-14700KF specs and performance

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700KF 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 i7-14700KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700KF. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700KF.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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