Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

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 i7-14700KF

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 112.10 significantly less expensive

$ 357.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10392 points

15482 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12151 points

15667 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9817 points

15467 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9682 points

15580 points

60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9522 points

14250 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

442.38 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

19170 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2961 points

24% 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

81st of 1,127

20th of 1,127

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

Core i7-12700F vs Core i7-14700KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700KF is faster than the Core i7-12700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700F. Also, the Core i7-14700KF 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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.