Intel Core i7-14700 vs Intel Core i9-12900

Core i7-14700 vs Core i9-12900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 beats the Core i9-12900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-12900 that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900. The Core i7-14700 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 i7-14700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.