Intel Core i7-14700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 398.96
$ 229.68
$ 169.28 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11732 points
12643 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13191 points
14524 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11333 points
11994 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11315 points
11755 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12400 points
12436 points
0.29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.94 points
321.20 points
9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
42% many more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
100% significantly more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
4.2 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
24
20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
7% slightly more L2 cache
26 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
46th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i7-14700 vs Core Ultra 5 245K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 245K is faster than the Core i7-14700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 245K has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K. The Core i7-14700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-14700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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