Intel Core i7-13700K vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Core i7-13700K vs Core i9-14900KS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Core i7-13700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-14900KS also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-13700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.