Intel Core i7-14700F vs Intel Core i9-14900F

Core i7-14700F vs Core i9-14900F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900F performs better than the Core i7-14700F. 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 i9-14900F has slightly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-14700F that has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. Despite this, the Core i9-14900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900F has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-14700F. The Core i9-14900F 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 i7-14700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.