AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 447.36
$ 408.49
$ 38.87 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points
5% slightly better overall score
15773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points
15321 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
16003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
16246 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points
16795 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
508.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points
20340 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points
3072 points
3% 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

4.5 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 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
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

11th of 1,089
18th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core i9 (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 i9-14900KF comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900KF performs better than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KF. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900KF.

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.

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