Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i7-14700

Core i7-11700 vs Core i7-14700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700 is faster than the Core i7-11700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700 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 i7-11700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700. 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.