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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700K is faster than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-10700K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700 outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-10700K 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.