Intel Core i7-14700 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K

Core i7-14700 vs Core Ultra 7 265K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 265K beats the Core i7-14700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-14700 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 7 265K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. Also, the Core Ultra 7 265K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 265K has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K.

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.