Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i7-7700

Core i7-11700K vs Core i7-7700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11700K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. Both the Core i7-11700K and Core i7-7700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7700 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11700K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700. The Core i7-11700K also has significantly 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.