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

Ryzen 9 7950X vs Core i9-14900KS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Ryzen 9 7950X in overall performance. 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 i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has more threads than the Core i9-14900KS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900KS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900KS.

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 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.