AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Ryzen 9 9900X3D vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14650HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14650HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14650HX.

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 9900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.