Intel Core i7-14700 vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 398.96

$ 284.79

$ 114.17 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11732 points

12025 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13191 points

14272 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11333 points

0.23% slightly better multitasking score

11307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11315 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

11156 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12400 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

10606 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.94 points

303.53 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15696 points

16100 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2720 points

2838 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

42% many more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.5 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.3 GHz

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

192 GiB

Identical

192 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB

40% slightly more L2 cache

20 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB

37% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

55th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-14700 vs Core i5-14600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700 is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-14600K has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600K. The Core i7-14700 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 i7-14700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.