Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700K

Price

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$ 318.24

$ 16.75 slightly less expensive

$ 334.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points

16063 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

16190 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

16059 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

16174 points

69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

14813 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

445.12 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

21751 points

35892 points

65% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

18777 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

2921 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.6 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

33 MiB

32% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089

17th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Core i7-14700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core i7-12700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i7-12700 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.