14900K vs 7950X: Intel and AMD's flagship CPUs go head to head

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Both CPUs can be considered thebest processorsof their respective generation with leading performance where it matters most.

Theres about a 2% price difference between the two top-end CPUs.

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The hottest the former got was 92.4C but the latter topped out at a pretty extreme 105C.

More importantly, AMDs latest ran significantly more efficiently by 52%.

For a machine thats purely geared around gaming, the 7950X could be the better choice of the two.

However, based on everything weve seen in our testing, the Intel Core i9-14900K is the better all-rounder.

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