AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs Intel 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 676.99
$ 473.14
$ 203.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points
3% slightly better overall score
13852 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points
14835 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
13629 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
13729 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
12965 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
316.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
18063 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2847 points

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

4.20 GHz
110% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
5.8 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

128 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089
34th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core i9-14900F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900F 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-14900F has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900F 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 i9-14900F.

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

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