Intel Core i7-14700F vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs AMD 9 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

$ 301.43
$ 2097.52 significantly less expensive
$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13879 points
144% significantly better overall score
5669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14674 points
105% significantly better gaming score
7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13663 points
162% significantly better multitasking score
5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13676 points
167% significantly better heavy workload score
5104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

294.87 points
116% significantly higher Blender score
136.28 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16387 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12689 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2697 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
122% significantly more cores
9

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
55% significantly more threads
18

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.19 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB
522% significantly more L2 cache
4.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB
3% slightly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Core i7-14700F vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700F beats the EPYC 74F3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700F has more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. The Core i7-14700F also has slightly 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 i7-14700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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