AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10538 points
10917 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9595 points
12620 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10967 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
10406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11265 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
10324 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
278.01 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

80th of 1,118
74th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14650HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14650HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14650HX.

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 8945HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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