AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core i9-14900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900 beats the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900 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 i9-14900.

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.