Intel Core i7-10700F vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 201.50
$ 206.99 significantly less expensive
$ 408.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6380 points
15773 points
147% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8207 points
15321 points
86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5766 points
16003 points
177% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5592 points
16246 points
190% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6906 points
16795 points
143% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.44 points
508.28 points
214% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7260 points
20340 points
180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1638 points
3072 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.2 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
32 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
36 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

228th of 1,089
18th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-10700F vs Core i9-14900KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KF is faster than the Core i7-10700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores than the Core i7-10700F. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-10700F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-14900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700F. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700F. The Core i9-14900KF 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 i7-10700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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