Intel Core i7-14700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Core i7-14700 vs Ryzen 7 8700G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 beats the Ryzen 7 8700G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8700G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G. The Core i7-14700 also has significantly 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.