Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Core i7-12700K vs Core i9-14900KS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Core i7-12700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores than the Core i7-12700K. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has 24 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KS.

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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.