Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700K

Price

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$ 269.97

$ 65.02 slightly less expensive

$ 334.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9936 points

16063 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12084 points

16190 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9267 points

16059 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9125 points

16174 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9089 points

14813 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

255.79 points

445.12 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12160 points

18777 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2419 points

2921 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

42% many more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.4 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.6 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

28 MiB

599% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

33 MiB

37% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 1,089

17th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-13500 vs Core i7-14700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Core i5-13500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Core i7-14700K also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.