Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i5-14400

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-14400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400 is faster than the Core i7-11700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-11700K. Indeed, the Core i5-14400 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14400 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.