Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

Core i5-2300 vs Core i7-14700KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700KF beats the Core i5-2300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2300. Indeed, the Core i7-14700KF has 20 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-2300. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2300. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. Also, the Core i7-14700KF has a significantly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.