Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14400F

Price

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$ 298.15

$ 223.69

$ 74.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points

8601 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points

11043 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points

7824 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points

7622 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points

7397 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points

193.46 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points

11074 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

2320 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

2 MiB

9.5 MiB

374% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

20 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089

120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400F beats the Core i7-10700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400F. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i5-14400F 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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.