Intel Core i7-13700K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i7-13700K vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Core i5-14600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700K has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-14600K that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700K. Despite this, the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14600K. The Core i7-13700K 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 i7-13700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.