Intel Core i7-14700F vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Core i7-14700F vs Core i5-14600KF benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600KF beats the Core i7-14700F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700F has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-14600KF that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-14600KF. The Core i7-14700F 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 i7-14700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.