Battlefield 6 bench: 9800X3D is 30% faster than 14900K at 1080p, hardly any difference at 4K

Battlefield 6 runs amazingly smooth on decent hardware, but in new testing we see the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor being around 30% faster than the Intel Core i9-14900K in new testing. Check it out:

Testing Games spent some time comparing both of the CPUs against each other at 1080p, 1440p, and the glorious 4K resolution using NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card running Battlefield 6 in open beta form. The game is quite CPU-bound at lower resolutions, where the 9800X3D chews it up and delivers around 29% more performance than the 14900K.

This is all running the Ultra graphics preset, where the 9800X3D also consumes around 40% less power, with 1% and 0.1% lows being impressive for smoother gameplay. The GPU usage was hitting 80-90% using the 9800X3D, while sitting at just over 70% using the 14900K. There are parts where the performance gap between the 9800X3D and 14900K was sitting at around 25%, but it's still a huge gap between the two processors, showing AMD come out on top in Battlefield 6.

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Battlefield 6 running at 1440p has the 9800X3D at around 12% faster than the 14900K, with the 1% and 0.1% lows being identical, and GPU usage from the RTX 5090 sitting at 90%+ on both chips. The 9800X3D is still far more power efficient, using 40% less power than the 14900K running BF6 at 1440p.

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4K gaming on Battlefield 6 removes the CPU bottlenecking here and pushes the GPU to its limits, with the 9800X3D being around 3-7% faster (depending on the scene in BF6), with the 9800X3D using 100-110W of power, compared to 150-160W from the 14900K.