Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-9700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i7-9700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-10700 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-10700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.