AMD Ryzen 9 9900X vs Intel Core i9-14900

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 198.57 significantly less expensive

$ 567.57

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13788 points

14922 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14026 points

3% slightly better gaming score

13579 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13725 points

15426 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13727 points

15717 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

13920 points

15510 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

462.53 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

316.59 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19790 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16873 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3339 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2796 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz

120% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

5.8 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

35th of 1,089

24th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 9900X vs Core i9-14900 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X performs better than the Core i9-14900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900 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 9900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.