Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs. Core i9-14900K gaming
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D continues to demonstrate why it is widely considered to be one of the most effective central processing units for gaming. According to a report by the German news publication Computerbase, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D completely destroyed the forthcoming Core i9-14900K in the gaming test Factorio by a significant margin of 64 percent.
As its name suggests, Factorio is a simulation game played in two dimensions in which players build and operate factories. It has an integrated benchmark that can assess the performance of the CPU using a variety of various maps. As a result of the fact that Factorio is one of the very few games that does not require a graphics card to play, its popularity has been steadily growing. It is vital to point out that Factorio enjoys using cache, which provides a big advantage for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and other processors with AMD’s 3D V-cache in comparison to the components produced by Intel.
Results in Factorio are represented in terms of updates per second (UPS), rather than frames per second (FPS), which is the standard measurement for performance in other video games. The higher the number, the better, as it shows that the processor is capable of doing the computations at a quicker rate, which in turn causes the game to run more quickly. In the benchmarking of the Core i9-19400K, which was most likely done by a reviewer, the flame Sla 10k – 10x1000spm Belt Module map was used. This map is one of the most common ones for testing the performance of processors on the Factorio platform.
Intel Core i9-14900K Benchmarks
| Processor | 75th Percentile |
|---|---|
| Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 450.1 |
| Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 415.9 |
| Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 404.7 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 368.3 |
| Ryzen 7 5800X3D | 339.8 |
| Core i9-14900K | 275.2 |
| Core i7-13700K | 266.6 |
| Core i9-13900K | 261.2 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | 245.1 |
| Ryzen 5 5600X | 243.0 |
| Core i5-14600K | 239.7 |
The fact that AMD’s Ryzen 3D V-Cache components are at the top of the leaderboards for Factorio shouldn’t come as a surprise given the cache-intensive nature of the game. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was the fastest overall, leading the rankings by 64% over the Core i9-14900K. Even the Ryzen 7 5800X3D from the previous generation had a 23% performance advantage over the Core i9-14900K. The vanilla versions of Ryzen are completely outclassed by Intel’s Core i9-14900K. The next flagship of the Raptor Lake Refresh architecture offered performance that was up to 12% greater than that of the Ryzen 7 7700X, which was the most powerful Ryzen chip without 3D V-Cache on the Factorio leaderboard.
The database contained information about more unannounced Raptor Lake Refresh processors in addition to the Core i9-14900K. Someone also ran the Core i7-14700K through the benchmarking process with the identical parameters. It should not come as a surprise that the Core i9-14900K was just 3% quicker than the Core i7-14700K because the latter is the only chip in the Raptor Lake Refresh lineup to have gotten a small E-core improvement.
The Core i9-14900K was just 5% quicker than the previous Core i9-13900K, which was the previous generation. Once more, this is to be expected given that the majority of the components included in Raptor Lake Refresh run at clock rates that are slightly faster than their usual counterparts. On the other hand, the performance of the Core i5-14600K was comparable to that of the Ryzen 5 5600X, which belonged to an earlier version of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series and was powered by Zen 3 cores.
It has been claimed that the debut date for Raptor Lake Refresh will be on October 17, only a few days from now. Although the new 10nm CPUs won’t shake up the industry, they should be able to keep Intel afloat until the Arrow Lake architecture is complete in 2024.
