Core i9-14900HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i9-14900HX is the flagship Raptor Lake HX Refresh engine of the 2024 gaming generation — 40 catalog models carry it. A 24-core, 32-thread beast rated at 55 W, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in all 69 of the games the catalog tracks — one of the very few chips with a perfect card. This guide covers where it sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops ship with it.

Where the Core i9-14900HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 94 places the chip 10th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the outright top end. The neighborhood is an all-star cast: the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D (98.1) and 7945HX (97.3) above, the Core Ultra 9 285H (94.5) alongside at ninth, and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 (93.6), Ryzen 9 7845HX (93.4) and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (92.4) trailing. Trading blows with AMD's 3D-cache monsters while carrying Intel's hybrid 24-core layout is elite company by any measure — nothing within three ranks is weaker than 92.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake HX is a 24-core, 32-thread design on a 7 nm-class process rated at 55 W: 2.2 GHz base and up to 5.7 GHz boost on the performance cores. The integrated Iris Xe G7 graphics with 96 execution units is nearly always idle here — this chip ships next to serious discrete GPUs. The catalog holds a full benchmark card: GeekBench 2,645 single / 15,380 multi and a PassMark overall score of 43,935.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 69 of 69 cataloged games — the only catalog entry with a perfect score besides its rank-neighbors. Starfield's 88-point recommended bar, the highest in the catalog, is the only ask that even approaches it. In CPU terms there is no game wall on this site for the 14900HX; any limitation in practice comes from the laptop's GPU, RAM or cooling — the CPU-side readiness verdicts never bind.

Laptops that carry it

The 40-model roster is a wall of gaming hardware, heavy on 2025 machines at $1,440: ASUS TUF F16, ROG Strix G16 and G18, MSI Katana 15, Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 and HP Omen 16. The 2026 wave steps to $1,800 with the MSI Crosshair 16 HX and HP HyperX Omen 15, the 2024 veterans include the Alienware M18 R2 at $2,485 and Legion 5 16IRX9 at $1,400, and HP's ZBook Fury 16 G11 workstation ($1,408) shows the chip's professional side. Roster medians describe the fleet: engineering/modeling indices at 99, photo/design 94.5, gaming 82 — and portability at 18.7, the honest price of flagship power.

Bottom line

The Core i9-14900HX is a no-compromises CPU pick: it outscores or matches everything except AMD's 3D-cache HX flagships, clears every recommended bar in the catalog, and ships in machines from $1,400 sales to a $2,485 18-inch Alienware. Buy it for a laptop that must last — compiling, rendering, streaming while gaming — and match it with an equally serious GPU. The one thing it will never be is subtle: 55 W and a 24-core layout mean bulk, fans and a power brick.