i9-14900K vs Phenom II X3 720 - Need For Speed: Payback GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q - Game Performance Benchmarks

Multi-Thread Performance

Single-Thread Performance

i9-14900K

• The i9-14900K has higher Level 3 Cache. This is useful when you have substantial multiprocessing workloads, many computationally intense simultaneous processes. More likely on a server, less on a personally used computer for interactive desktop workloads.
• For some games, a cpu with a higher clock speed, or in a technical name IPC (Instructions per clock), has better results than other CPU's with higher core count and lower core speed.
• The i9-14900K has a smaller process size. The faster a transistor can toggle on and off, the faster it can do work. And transistors that turn on and off with less energy are more efficient, reducing the operating power, or “dynamic power consumption,” required by a processor.

Phenom II X3 720

• The Phenom II X3 720 has higher Level 2 Cache. Data/instructions which have to be processed can be loaded from the fast L2 and the CPU does not have to wait for the very slow DDR RAM
• The Phenom II X3 720 is more power efficient and generates less heat.