Intel Core i7-14700F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i7-14700F vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700F is faster than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700F has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. 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.