Intel Core i7-13700KF vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

Core i7-13700KF vs Core i9-14900KF comparison

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores than the Core i7-13700KF. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i7-13700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KF. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-14900KF 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 i7-13700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.