Intel Core i9-14900K gaming overall performance edges out AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D through a narrow margin

What simply came about? We're much less than one week faraway from the launch of Intel's 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors, which means extra benchmarks are being leaked. The cutting-edge of those is stated to be an reputable slide from Intel comparing the Core i9-14900K's 1080p gaming performance in opposition to AMD's Ryzen nine 7950X3D. The results are close, but Intel's chip takes the win with a small 2% lead.

The slide, shared by prolific leaker HXL (through VideoCardz), comes from a Chinese Intel presentation evaluating Intel's upcoming flagship with AMD's and its 3D V-Cache generation.

The 24-center Intel CPU has the brink in 14 of the tested games, whilst AMD's card is beforehand in 10. One recreation, Company of Heroes, is a tie.

Some of the games wherein Intel's chip clearly shines encompass Metro Exodus and Starfield, each of which saw 23% gains over the Ryzen nine 7950X3D, even as Total War: Warhammer three changed into 22% ahead. AMD's chip noticed better performance in Cyberpunk 2077, DOTA 2, and Fortnite.

Performance figures Core i9-14900K vs. Ryzen nine 7950X3D

• DOTA 2: seventy seven%
• Fortnite: 82%
• Cyberpunk 2077: 89%
• League of Legends: ninety four%
• Horizon Zero Dawn: ninety four%
• Final Fantasy 14: 95%
• Red Dead Redemption 2: ninety six%
• Forza Horizon five: ninety eight%
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla: 99%
• Galaxy Breaker: ninety nine%
• Company of Heroes 3: 100%
• Far Cry 6: 103%
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord: 103%
• COD: MW2: 103%
• GTA5: 105%
• Hitman three: 106%
• Rainbow Six Siege: 107%
• World of Tanks Encore RT: 108%
• Serious Sam four: 108%
• Civilization 6: 109%
• Counter Strike Global Offensive: 114%
• Ashes of the Singularity: a hundred and fifteen%
• Total War Warhammer three: 122%
• Starfield: 123%
• Metro Exodus: 123%

According to the effects, which are from Intel so likely primarily based on nice-case situations, the Core i9-14900K outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D by using a mean of 2%.

The largest unknown aspect right here is the rate. We'll should wait and see if Intel prices the Core i9-14900K less than the 7950X3D, that's available for around $599. There's also the cheaper Ryzen 7 7800X3D to recollect. Available for $399, we located it as compared almost identically to the 7950X3D in our 12-game average benchmarks at 1080p.

We previously heard that the Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs should price 15% greater than their predecessors at the same time as imparting handiest small performance boosts.

Last month noticed the Core i9-14900K appear in the Geekbench database with a record-breaking single-middle of three,one hundred forty factors and reaching almost 6 GHz. That rating is a 6% improvement over its 13th-gen equivalent chip and 1% greater than the Core i9-13900KS. Its multi-center rating turned into decrease than the Core i9-13900KS, the i9-13900K, and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, even though.

Intel will release the primary Raptor Lake Refresh processors, predicted to be the Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K, and Core i5-14600K, on October 17, with the review embargo lifting on October 16.