AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core i7-14700HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D performs better than the Core i7-14700HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700HX has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads than the Core i7-14700HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700HX.

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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.