Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i7-14700

Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-14700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i7-10700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i7-14700 also has significantly 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.